I'm afraid that there is no getting away from DFP and a designation of
Decimal FP. It is already used heavily in the preliminary architecture
document, SA23-2232-00; and parallelism with HFP (hexadecimal FP) and BFP
(Binary FP) make it inescapable.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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