A unified decimal floating-point architecture for the support of high-level languages
Frederic N. Ris · ACM SIGNUM Newsletter · 1976
This paper summarizes a proposal for a decimal floating-point arithmetic interface for the support of high-level languages, consisting both of the arithmetic operations observed by application programs and facilities to produce sub-routine libraries accessible from these programs. What is not included here are the detailed motivations, examinations of alternatives, and implementation considerations which will appear in the full work.