[Python-ideas] Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System

[Mark H. Harris]

On Sunday, March 9, 2014 1:10:41 AM UTC-6, Mark H. Harris wrote:
 

>   this is one of Mike Cowlishaw's papers regarding decimal 
> floating point, hardware decimal floating point, and the IEEE 854 1987 
> standard,
> and other topics.  He mentions the TI89, and others, that use decimal 
> floating
> point arithmetic, with citations. 
>
> http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/mike-cowlishaw/decimal-arith.pdf
>

In the course of this thread I have mentioned Michael Cowlishaw's Rexx, and 
my
work at IBM;  for one thing adding a library of decimal floating point 
routines for
use with VM370 Rexx which provides the scientific and transcendental 
functions
for the now arcane 370 system.  I found one of the scripts in my archive 
and 
uploaded it to code.google.com for historical purposes and perspective. If 
anyone
is interested it can be found here:

https://code.google.com/p/rexxdecimallibrary/


Cheers
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