General Decimal Arithmetic
Specification
Version 1.08 – 14 Nov 2002
IBM

This document describes the operations of General Decimal Arithmetic; it is also available in PDF (Acrobat) and PostScript formats.
  1. Introduction – overview
  2. Scope – what's covered by the specification
  3. Model – abstract representations
  4. Conversions – to and from strings
  5. Operations – arithmetic
  6. Exceptional conditions – errors, etc.
  7. Appendix A – The X3-274 subset – simplified number set
  8. Appendix B – Design concepts – background
  9. Appendix C – Changes – since 26 July 2000.

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