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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: evolution of bytes, The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 21:39:35 -0000 (UTC)
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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.