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The binary coded decimal (BCD) encoding has always dominated the decimal arithmetic algorithms and their hardware implementation. Due to importance of decimal arithmetic, the decimal format defined in IEEE 754 floating point standard has been revisited. It uses densely packed decimal (DPD) encoding to store significant part of a decimal floating point number. Furthermore in recent years reversible...