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Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy
IBM hardware has supported packed decimal arithmetic for... ever? The z9 hardware onwards includes decimal floating point (IEEEsomethingorother) support[0] (sizeable PDF warning).
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http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dz9zr011.pdf
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[0] http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dz9zr011.pdf