On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 23:16:04 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
Although still years away from production, the Mill CPU will
have decimal floating point:
http://millcomputing.com/wiki/Instruction_Set
Mill is a fun project, and there are also base 10 floating point
FPGA coprocessors available, but probably not widely deployed.
I've personally settled for storing in cents instead, as integers
have accurate precision (storing "30.0" instead of "0.3"). The
problem is then reduced to writing a wrapper for floats with a
dedicated string_to_float conversion that is loss free.
