General Decimal Arithmetic Samples

This example code illustrates the representation of numeric values in forms suitable for applying decimal arithmetic operations. For details about the relevant formats and specifications see the General Decimal Arithmetic home page.

The decSample package was devised to illustrate encoding of decimal floating-point numbers in binary bit strings, and corresponding decoding.

decsample	Version	Description
Documentation [.html]	1.00 2003.04.10	Describes the decsample package, which contains Java code illustrating decimal floating-point value encoding and decoding.
Download decsample	1.00 2003.04.10	The source code (.java files), together with the documentation in JavaDoc (HTML) format.