Precision Tail-off?

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2023-02-17 14:39:42 +0000, Weatherby,Gerard wrote:
> IEEE did not define a standard for floating point arithmetics. They
> designed multiple standards, including a decimal float point one.
> Although decimal floating point (DFP) hardware used to be
> manufactured, I couldn’t find any current manufacturers.

Doesn't IBM any more? Their POWER processors used to implement decimal
FP (starting with POWER8, if I remember correctly).

        hp

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