I wrote an arbitrary precision ASCII decimal floating point library. No conversion required at all! https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/lib/fa

I wrote an arbitrary precision ASCII decimal floating point library. No conversion required at all! https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/lib/farb https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/lib/farb (There are much faster alternatives, this was just for the fun of it).