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Re: Decimal Floating Point

From Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Decimal Floating Point
Date 2021-09-11 06:31 +0200
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Am 10.09.2021 um 21:07 schrieb Scott Lurndal:

>> Decimal-FP is too highlevel for such a lowlevel language.

> Incorrect, as usual.
> Decimal FP, when implemented in the hardware[*], is suitable for any
> language (especially COBOL).

Such datatypes and operations will never be part of a lowlevel-language
like C.

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  Re: Decimal Floating Point "james...@alumni.caltech.edu" <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-09-10 08:17 -0700
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