Even though decimal arithmetic is pervasive in financial and commercial transactions,
computers are still implementing almost all arithmetic calculations using binary arithmetic.
As chip real estate becomes cheaper it is becoming likely that more computer manufacturers
will provide processors with decimal arithmetic engines. Programming languages and
databases are expanding the decimal data types available while there has been little
change in the base hardware. As a result, each language and application is defining a …

… ● People think in terms of decimals ● BFP can’t represent decimal fractions such as 0.1
● Scaling of BFP requires rounding ● Decimal data is common, of all numeric data from
commercial databases – 55% decimal, 26.4% small int, 17.3% integer, and 1.4% binary
float ● How do we get decimal arithmetic into … Decimal Float is actually binary …