Decimal Floating Point

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book , Other literature type 01 Jan 2015 English Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland

Authors: Ronald T. Kneusel;

doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-67482-2_7 , 10.1007/978-3-319-50508-4_7 , 10.1007/978-3-319-17260-6_6

Decimal Floating Point

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Decimal floating-point is an emerging standard which uses base 10 instead of base 2 to represent floating-point numbers. In this chapter we will take a look at how decimal floating-point numbers are stored using the IEEE 754-2008 standard as our reference. We will then look at a C language software implementation of decimal floating-point which conforms to the IEEE standard and give some examples of its use. We follow this with a look at the Python decimal library. We end with some thoughts on decimal floating-point and its use.

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