> See IEEE754 Only in the original 1985 version, however: IEEE 754-2008 actually specifies decimal floating point types; decimal arithmetic was already specifi

> See IEEE754 Only in the original 1985 version, however: IEEE 754-2008 actually specifies decimal floating point types; decimal arithmetic was already specified in IEEE 854-1987. Of course, the default representation is almost always one of the binary formats, but that is no longer the only option.