Decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic refers to both a representation and operations on decimal floating-point numbers. Working directly with decimal...

floating-point number in base ten with any finite number of digits. In practice, most floating-point systems use base two, though base ten (decimal floating...

standard. The standard defines: arithmetic formats: sets of binary and decimal floating-point data, which consist of finite numbers (including signed zeros and...

additional floating-point formats, including 32-bit base-2 single precision and, more recently, base-10 representations (decimal floating point). One of...

The IEEE 754-2008 standard includes decimal floating-point number formats in which the significand and the exponent (and the payloads of NaNs) can be encoded...

support for decimal floating point in some programming languages, like C# and Python, has removed most of the need for decimal fixed-point support. In...

included IEEE binary floating-point units which conform to the IEEE 754 Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic. IEEE decimal floating-point was added to IBM...

ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 standards for decimal floating point. Like Chen–Ho encoding, DPD encoding classifies each decimal digit into one of two ranges, depending...

decimal64 is a decimal floating-point computer number format that occupies 8 bytes (64 bits) in computer memory. Decimal64 is a decimal floating-point format...

In computing, decimal128 is a decimal floating-point number format that occupies 128 bits in memory. Formally introduced in IEEE 754-2008, it is intended...

instruction sets (e.g., ARM; x86 in long mode). However, decimal fixed-point and decimal floating-point formats are still important and continue to be used...

symbol can be called a decimal mark, decimal marker, or decimal sign. Symbol-specific names are also used; decimal point and decimal comma refer to a dot...

32-bit base-2 floating-point variable has a maximum value of (2 − 2−23) × 2127 ≈ 3.4028235 × 1038. All integers with seven or fewer decimal digits, and...

In computing, decimal32 is a decimal floating-point computer numbering format that occupies 4 bytes (32 bits) in computer memory. Like the binary16 and...

(modulus) of the significand m is at least 1 but less than 10. Decimal floating point is a computer arithmetic system closely related to scientific notation...

In computing, quadruple precision (or quad precision) is a binary floating-point–based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) with precision...

Enterprise PL/I, XL C, and the z/OS Java BigDecimal class can exploit hardware decimal floating point. The System z10 processor adds numerous new instructions...

binary-coded decimal, especially in database implementations, but there are other decimal representations in use (including decimal floating point such as...

directly support decimal is IBM's Power ISA, which added support for IEEE 754-2008 decimal floating-point starting with Power ISA 2.05. Decimal integer support...

operations and memory cells. Numbers were entered and output as decimal floating-point even though the internal working was in binary. The machine had...

Add _Decimal32, _Decimal64, _Decimal128 keywords for (optional) decimal floating-point arithmetic (see "other" group) Labels can appear before declarations...

IEEE 754 compliant floating-point operations are supported, including additional fused multiply–add (FMA) and decimal floating-point instructions. There...

definition, floating-point error cannot be eliminated, and, at best, can only be managed. Huberto M. Sierra noted in his 1956 patent "Floating Decimal Point Arithmetic...

(approximately 71 decimal digits: log10(2237) ≈ 71.344). The bits are laid out as follows: The octuple-precision binary floating-point exponent is encoded...

interpreters—IP-2 (floating-point, 8 decimal digits), IP-3 (floating-point, 6 decimal digits), IP-4 (complex numbers, 8 decimal digits), IP-5 (floating-point, 12 decimal...

C#, CLI), and IEEE (754 decimal floating-point). He retired from IBM in March 2010. Cowlishaw has worked on aspects of decimal arithmetic; his proposal...

of the x87 floating point: "An extended format as wide as we dared (80 bits) was included to serve the same support role as the 13 decimal internal format...

floating-point standardisation. IEEE 854 arithmetic was first commercially implemented in the HP-71B handheld computer, which used decimal floating point...

60559:2011-compatible binary floating-point arithmetic ISO/IEC TS 18661-2:2015, on IEC 60559:2011-compatible decimal floating point arithmetic ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015...

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