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IEEE 754-2008 already has standardised decimal formats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point#IEEE_754-2008_encoding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by shaurz 12y ago
IEEE 754-2008 already has standardised decimal formats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point#IEEE_754-2008_encoding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point#IEEE_754...
- dragonwriter 12y agoCrockford addresses that in passing at the end of the DEC64 page, claiming that IEEE 754's decimal floating point types were too inefficient to garner support.