The POWER6 has hardware support for decimal arithmetic.

POWER 6为十进制计算提供硬件支持。

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That's more than adequate for most tasks, but you do need to keep in mind that it's not decimal arithmetic, and that every float operation can suffer a new rounding error.

但是，我们还是要牢记我们做的并不是十进制运算，任何一个浮点预算都有可能产生一个新的错误。

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SQL-92 includes a decimal data type, which is an exact numeric type for representing fixed point decimal Numbers and performs basic arithmetic operation on decimal Numbers.

SQL - 92包括DECIMAL数据类型，它是用于表示定点小数的精确数字类型，它可以对小数进行基本的算术运算。

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Calculations by scientists, who are forever totting up times but are often bad at mental arithmetic, will also be much easier if they can just move decimal points instead of multiplying and dividing.

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