On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 07:12:41 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
I contacted Doug to ask if he had any additional resources that
I could use to make my argument for DEC64. I only got a brief
reply (happy to get any reply from someone so busy) to the
effect that everything he has to say on the matter is in the
motivation segment of his web site for the proposal [1].
The most salient part is the last 2 sentences...
> A later revision of IEEE 754 attempted to remedy this, but the
> formats it recommended were so inefficient that it has not
> found much acceptance. DEC64 is a better alternative.
I encourage anyone who is dismissive of the adoption of DEC64
or who would prefer to see the IEEE decimal floats implemented
to take the time to read the full article. I also recommend the
presentation that alerted me to DEC64 either in full (46:10)
[2] or at least just the segment about numbers [3].
A...
[1] http://dec64.org
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WgVHE5Augc
[3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3WgVHE5Augc#t=818
I believe one form of decimal64 was intended for inclusion in D
since at least 2009, according to this article:
http://dlang.org/d-floating-point.html
