Abstract: Decimal data and decimal arithmetic operations are ubiquitous in daily life. Although microprocessors normally use binary arithmetic for computations, decimal arithmetic is often required in ...

Decimal arithmetic is indispensable in applications where precision is paramount, such as in financial, commercial and scientific domains. The inherent challenges of decimal computation, particularly ...

Abstract: Binary floating-point numbers with finite precision cannot represent all decimal numbers with complete accuracy. This can often lead to errors while performing calculations involving ...

Decimal arithmetic is desirable for high precision requirements of many financial, industrial and scientific applications. Furthermore, hardware support for decimal arithmetic has gained momentum with ...

Editor's Note: This is the first article in a two-part series on decimal representations and decimal arithmetic in general, and on Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) in particular. In this first installment, ...

As you may or may not recall, way back in the mists of time that we used to call “2007”, I penned an article called BCD coming to an FPGA near you. In this humble offering, I noted that we require ...

Decimal represents values internally using three integers: a sign, a coefficient, and an exponent. In this way, numbers of any size and with any number of decimal places can be represented exactly.

There are some unnecessary unwraps in decimal arithmetic that result in a PolarsResult being unwrapped in a function that returns a PolarsResult; this causes the ...