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You may be confusing floating-point with fixed-point? Hardware with decimal floating-point only appeared in 2007, and still doesn't seem to be easily available
by nsajko 4y ago
You may be confusing floating-point with fixed-point?
Hardware with decimal floating-point only appeared in 2007, and still doesn't seem to be easily available:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER6
- Dylan16807 4y agoI expect that's because the cost versus effort for having two kinds of floating point isn't very good. Not because decimal floating point is notably more expensive than binary floating point.