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> Even without moving away from the IEEE-754 standard, there are ways languages could be designed to minimize surprises.

Floating point in base 10 is already in the standard since 2008:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point

The standard is not to blame, the lack of demand for that feature is.

Most of the potential users don’t know that they can demand from their software and hardware suppliers that feature. Using it there would be less “surprises.”



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