Are you familiar with the IEEE 754-2008 specification of decimal floating point format? From Wikipedia's entry on decimal64[1]: "It is intended for application

Are you familiar with the IEEE 754-2008 specification of decimal floating point format? From Wikipedia's entry on decimal64[1]: "It is intended for applications where it is necessary to emulate decimal rounding exactly, such as financial and tax computations." [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_format