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		kabdib on March 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DEC64: Decimal Floating Point On the other hand, if you don't have a reference specification you shouldn't declare something standard. (re: all the web standards that had very wide "interpretation" by different browser efforts, leading to chaos and a whole industry based on fear an uncertainty)

nolok on March 8, 2014 [–]

But nobody did, you're the first person in the thread to mention the word "standard". You might be confusing specification with standard.

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