Due to rapid growth in financial, commercial, and Internet-based applications, there is an increasing desire to allow computers to operate on both binary and decimal floating-point numbers.

Decimal represents values internally using three integers: a sign, a coefficient, and an exponent. In this way, numbers of any size and with any number of decimal places can be represented exactly.

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