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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

bits (approximately 34 decimal digits: log10(2113) ≈ 34.016). The bits are laid out as: The quadruple-precision binary floating-point exponent is encoded...

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...

In computing, decimal64 is a decimal floating-point computer numbering format that occupies 8 bytes (64 bits) in computer memory. It is intended for applications...

in the complex plane. The number 123.45 can be represented as a decimal floating-point number with the integer 12345 as the significand and a 10−2 power...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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

(log10(211) ≈ 3.311 decimal digits, or 4 digits ± slightly less than 5 units in the last place). The half-precision binary floating-point exponent is encoded...

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...

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

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

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

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