General Decimal Arithmetic Specification Version 1.08 – 14 Nov 2002

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

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