General Decimal Arithmetic Specification Version 1.08 – 14 Nov 2002 |

This document describes the operations of General Decimal Arithmetic; it is also available in PDF (Acrobat) and PostScript formats.

1. Introduction – overview
2. Scope – what's covered by the specification
3. Model – abstract representations
4. Conversions – to and from strings
5. Operations – arithmetic
6. Exceptional conditions – errors, etc.
7. Appendix A – The X3-274 subset – simplified number set
8. Appendix B – Design concepts – background
9. Appendix C – Changes – since 26 July 2000.

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