IEEE 854-1987
IEEE Std 854-1987, the Standard for Radix-Independent Floating-Point Arithmetic, was the first Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers international standard for floating-point arithmetic with radices other than 2, including radix 10. IEEE 854 did not specify any data formats, whereas IEEE 754-1985 did specify formats for binary floating point. IEEE 754-1985 was superseded in 2008 by IEEE 754-2008, which specifies floating-point arithmetic for both radix 2 and radix 10, and specifies two alternative formats for radix 10 floating-point values, and then again in 2019 by minor revision IEEE 754-2019. IEEE 754-2008 also has many other updates to the IEEE floating-point standardisation.
IEEE 854 arithmetic was first commercially implemented in the HP-71B handheld computer, which used decimal floating point with 12 digits of significand, and an exponent range of ±499, with a 15 digit significand used for intermediate results.
