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RE: are we ready?
Paul Zimmermann wrote:
Are we ready to standardize decimal formats?
Yes.
The world wish to have a decimal exchange format.
When we consider, that the financial world
requires decimal numbers, it is surprising that
we so far had no standard, but lived with BCD,
various Fixed decimal encodings, etc. And we owe
the entire economical world the standardization
of a decimal format:
20,000,000 Million $ world GDP
( http://www.combusem.com/WORLDGDP.HTM )
50,000 Million $ Server computer market
Majority of the committee members belong to HW
market. We, SAP, are an independent Software
vendor. We support all major HW and Operating
systems. And we welcome the heart of IEEE754r
in name of all our customers. And we also
trust the committee that the decision we make
will be made to serve the entire economical world.
- Nobu