Re: evolution of bytes, The joy of FORTRAN

On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 14:58:22 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:

IBM deemed decimal arithmetic to be necessary for comercial market.

Interesting to see a recognition nowadays that even scientific users might
be interested in decimal arithmetic, too. Look at how the latest version
of the IEEE 754 spec includes decimal data types in addition to the
traditional binary ones.