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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Higgins) writes: > DFP Decimal IEEE 754r FP > Significant digits 7 16 34 > Maximum exponent 96 384 6144 > > All of these formats are supported by z390 on Windows and Linux with CTD > and CFD conversion routine macros and supervisor calls for converting > between EBCDIC/ASCII character scientific notation and any of the above > binary formats. All corrections and comments welcome. > > Don Higgins > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.z390.org Mike gave talk on 754r decimal FP, thursday at HILLGANG meeting ... included some interesting background and performance numbers about decimal FP justification (as well as how long things can get dragged out in standards process). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
