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Re:0.30000000000000004 by mehrdada on Friday November 13, 2015 @11:58PM (#10564530)
> Do CPUs support doing math directly with BCD values

Perhaps surprisingly to some, x86 has instructions for BCD manipulation at the CPU level. Legacy.

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Re:0.30000000000000004 by jerven on Saturday November 14, 2015 @04:06PM (#10567257)
In IBM POWER 6 this returned as an optimisation in hardware.

https://books.google.ch/books?id=SPXHAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA...

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