Re: Decimal Floating Point Numbers

2024-03-04 Thread Gary L Peskin
Hi, Abe - In the version of the PoP that I'm looking at, it states that ". Except where otherwise indicated, ...DFP [is defined] in terms of the right-units view. So I think that's just a convention in the documentation. As far as LUV vs RUV, a given value is represented the same in a

Re: Decimal Floating Point Numbers

2024-03-04 Thread Abe Kornelis
Hi Gary, Thanks for the PoP quote. I must have missed that one. Otherwise, I roughly got as far as you did. One can move the (virtual) decimal point at will, provided you adjust the exponent value accordingly. When e.g. adding two DFP numbers, the LUV vs. RUV does not seem to matter - the