Decimal Floating Point

GPTKB entity

Statements (29)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Numerical Representation
gptkbp:advantage Exact decimal representation
Slower than binary floating point
gptkbp:contrastsWith gptkb:Binary_Coded_Decimal
Binary Floating Point
gptkbp:definedIn Exponent
Sign bit
Significand
gptkbp:hasApplication Accounting
Business software
Currency calculations
gptkbp:hasFeature gptkb:IEEE_754-2008
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Decimal Floating Point
gptkbp:prevention Rounding errors in decimal fractions
gptkbp:standardizedBy gptkb:IEEE_754
gptkbp:supportedBy gptkb:Intel_Itanium
gptkb:IBM_POWER6
Java BigDecimal
Python decimal module
gptkbp:supportsFormat Decimal128
Decimal32
Decimal64
gptkbp:usedFor Representing real numbers
gptkbp:usedIn Programming languages
Computing
Databases
Financial applications
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:POWER_ISA_v2.07
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7