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		wmf on Nov 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A secret Apple Silicon extension to accommodate an... Spreadsheets should probably use decimal not IEEE 754.

vba616 on Nov 18, 2022 [–]

I don't know anything about the topic, but there may be decimal standards that are part of IEEE 754?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_forma...

"formally introduced in the 2008 version of IEEE 754 as well as with ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011."

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