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trollbridgetoday at 12:40 PM2 repliesview on HN

I just wish there were a widespread decimal-based floating point standard & units.


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volemotoday at 5:36 PM

Would it help though? IMHO, being binary is one of the least confusing sides of IEEE 754.

clnhlzmntoday at 1:28 PM

doesn't ieee754 define a decimal format? Specifically "decimal64"