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=== Densely packed decimal significand field ===

In this version, the significand is stored as a series of decimal digits. The leading digit is between

0 and 9 (3 or 4 binary bits), and the rest of the significand uses the [[densely packed decimal]] encoding.

Unlike the binary integer significand version, where the exponent changed position and came before the significand, this encoding combines the leading 2 bits of the exponent and the leading digit (3 or 4 bits)