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I see no contradiction here, as long as the period is >= 16...



Yep, it seems people need to understand the details of base translation before writing a comment :p

Anyway, IIRC you can round-trip 15 decimal digits correctly with an IEEE double. Don't know if it's floor(15.955) or something else, but it's close enough for me to consider DEC64 quite useless compared to existing, quite well-designed and widely used implementation of FP.




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