Decimal floating point (3 or 4 binary bits), and the rest of the significand uses the densely packed decimal (DPD) encoding. Unlike the binary integer significand version, where the exponent changed position and came before the significand, this encoding combines the leading 2 bits of the exponent and the leading digit (3 or 4 bits) of the significand into the five bits that follow the sign bit. This is followed by a fixed-offset exponent continuation field. Finally, the significand continuation field made of 2, 5, or 11 10-bit "declets", each encoding 3 decimal digits. If the first two bits after the sign bit
Repeating decimal divided by the one represented by "n" digits 9. For example, If the repeating decimal is as above, except that there are "k" (extra) digits 0 between the decimal point and the repeating "n"-digit block, then one can simply add "k" digits 0 after the "n" digits 9 of the denominator (and, as before, the fraction may subsequently be simplified). For example, Any repeating decimal not of the form described above can be written as a sum of a terminating decimal and a repeating decimal of one of the two above types (actually the first type suffices, but that could