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jandrese
on Nov 29, 2018
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Fixed – Fixed-place decimal math library for Go
BCD mode was a popular in a lot of early chips. It's an esoteric feature today, but on 16 bit machines you would blow out the ALU way too easily and get into messy two word math.
justincormack
on Nov 29, 2018
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x86 still has BCD support, in 32 bit mode
http://www.hugi.scene.org/online/coding/hugi%2017%20-%20coaa...
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