Comment on Future instruction set: AVX-512parentComments−jey12yThe original post that started this thread was saying that chips should support decimal floating point natively in silicon instead of only base-2 floating point. Yes, those are different things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE754#Basic_formats−drewcrawford12yI am well aware of the difference between base 2 and base 10.You asked "why not just use doubles?" And my answer is "because one often multiplies by powers of ten."
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The original post that started this thread was saying that chips should support decimal floating point natively in silicon instead of only base-2 floating point. Yes, those are different things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE754#Basic_formats
I am well aware of the difference between base 2 and base 10.
You asked "why not just use doubles?" And my answer is "because one often multiplies by powers of ten."