More Floating Point Alternatives

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This is like regular floating point, but in base 10 instead of base 2. You’ll see this in computer algebra systems like Mathematica, Maple, or sympy. This is how floating point numbers (and integers) were stored on IBM computers in the 60s, and you can still occasionally see it today in old formats like ISO 8583 for financial transactions.

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