From: user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Michael S  posted:   
      
   > On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 00:21:31 -0000 (UTC)   
   > Thomas Koenig  wrote:   
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   > > And two decimal flavors, as well, with binary and densely packed   
   > > decimal encoding of the significand... it's a bit of a mess.   
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   > Since both formats have exactly identical semantics, in theory the mess   
   > is not worse (and not better) than two bytes orders of IEEE binary FP.   
      
   Division by 10 is way faster in DPD than in Binary.   
      
   > I see much bigger problem [than BID vs DPD] in the fact that IEEE   
   > standard does not specify few very important things about global states   
   > and interoperability of BFP and DFP in the same process. Like whether   
   > BFP and DFP have common rounding mode or each one has mode of its own.   
   > The same question about for exception flags and exception masks.   
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