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'''Decimal floating point''' arithmetic refers to both a representation and operations on [[decimal]] [[floating point]] numbers. TheWorking keydirectly iswith preserving base 10 exponents wherever possible. The conversion to binary exponents can lead to repeatavoid rounding errors andthat isresult thereforein unsuitableconversion forto precisionbase mathematics2 exponents.

For more details on the rationale behind DFP, see [http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/IEEE-cowlishaw-arith16.pdf Decimal Floating-Point: Algorithm for Computers] in the Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (Cowlishaw, M. F., 2003).