Binary integer decimal: Difference between revisions

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The draft [[IEEE 754r]] standard proposes an encoding format for decimal floating point numbers in which the significand and the exponent (and the payloads of [[NaN]]s) can be encoded in two ways, referred to in the draft as binary encoding and decimal encoding.<ref>{{cite web

| title = DRAFT Standard for Floating Point Arithmetic P754