I've wondered about that too - "Radix-100" FP used on TI CC40/TI74/TI95
programmables used an 8-byte format, byte 0 being the exponent biased so that 40 = 0, and a 7-byte BCD mantissa. ... On 7/18/19, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually thinking some more about it, why would BCD floating point code be > more compact even in ROM? > > Seems like BCD floats would be inefficient in every way. > > -- John. >
