On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 17:20:19 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:
>The IEEE standard makes external DFP results displayed in engineering
>notation platform-independent except, of course, for exponent ranges
>and quantities related to them, which are implementation-dependent.
>
Looking at wikipedia, which is always right:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point#IEEE_754-2008_encoding
... the binary encoding(s) appear(s) to be so strictly specified that there's
no room
for implementation-dependency. Of course, there's always the big/little-endian
nightmare. It would be nice if DFP were binary-portable. Of course, decimal
display provides a loss-free interchange format (But NaNs?)
But when I asked, "Which platform?) I meant which putative handheld device
is DFP-savvy, akin to handheld hex calculators.
-- gil
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