On 2023-02-17 14:39:42 +0000, Weatherby,Gerard wrote: > IEEE did not define a standard for floating point arithmetics. They > designed multiple standards, including a decimal float point one. > Although decimal floating point (DFP) hardware used to be > manufactured, I couldn’t find any current manufacturers.
Doesn't IBM any more? Their POWER processors used to implement decimal
FP (starting with POWER8, if I remember correctly).
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