[Terry Reedy]
> ...
> I wonder why we do not have (widespread, standardized) decimal
> FPUs as well as binary FPUs, which would push to extra overhead
> to the lowest level possible and give a pan-language solution.
Oops! Hit the "send" key too early last time. See the decimal FAQ:
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/decifaq.html#hwsupport
the following question.