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instructions to convert 10-byte (18 decimal digits) packed decimal data, although it then operates on them as floating-point numbers.

The Motorola 68000 series offered both conversion utilities as well as the ability to directly add and subtract in BCD. These instructions were removed when the Coldfire instruction set was defined.

The 2008 revision of the IEEE 754 floating-point standard adds three decimal

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