Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:52:42 +0300, Michael S wrote:

For fix point, anything "decimal" is even less useful than in floating
point. I can't find any good explanation for use of "decimal" things in
some early computers except that their designers were, may be, good
engineers, but 2nd rate thinkers.

IEEE-754 now includes decimal floating-point formats in addition to the
older binary ones. I think this was originally a separate spec (IEEE-854),
but it got rolled into the 2008 revision of IEEE-754.

Many numeric experts scoffed at IEEE-754 when it first came out,
particularly the features that reduced the surprise factor for less-expert
users. Decimal arithmetic is more of the same.

Safety-razor syndrome never quite goes away, does it ...