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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2024-07-19 08:06:02 (GMT)
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gh-121905: Consistently use "floating-point" instead of "floating point" (GH-121907)
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C-module and libmpdec written by Stefan Krah.
The new C version of the decimal module integrates the high speed libmpdec
-library for arbitrary precision correctly rounded decimal floating point
+library for arbitrary precision correctly rounded decimal floating-point
arithmetic. libmpdec conforms to IBM's General Decimal Arithmetic Specification.
Performance gains range from 10x for database applications to 100x for
numerically intensive applications. These numbers are expected gains
-for standard precisions used in decimal floating point arithmetic. Since
+for standard precisions used in decimal floating-point arithmetic. Since
the precision is user configurable, the exact figures may vary. For example,
in integer bignum arithmetic the differences can be significantly higher.