I want to ask the boost community if there is interest in a decimal floating-point class implementing one or more of the decimal floating-point types that are intended to become part of a future C and C++ standard. This class would be a wrapper class around Mike Cowlishaws decNumber C library. You can take a look at my first preliminary version (it is just a first try, the design is far from perfect, it is incomplete, its notation is inconsistent and not according to boost conventions) at http://www.rkaiser.de/rkaiser/DecFPClass/DecFPClass.html Most of its operators work as they should do, and most of Mikes testcases pass successfully. The function DecimalFloat_Testcases("d:\\cpp.boo\\decnumber\\decnumberclass\\decTest\\") in my test program test_rk reads all the testcases from Mikes decTest files and logs each testcase in a file (bcb files were created with Borland C++Builder 6, gcc with MinGW g++, and msc with MS Visual Studio .Net). With “grep "###number" *.log” you get the summary lines: File abs.decTest_bcb.log: ###number of tests passed=87 failed=2 File abs.decTest_gcc.log: ###number of tests passed=87 failed=2 File abs.decTest_msc.log: ###number of tests passed=87 failed=2 File add.decTest_bcb.log: ###number of tests passed=773 failed=45 File add.decTest_gcc.log: ###number of tests passed=773 failed=46 File add.decTest_msc.log: ###number of tests passed=773 failed=45 ... If the boost community is interested, if I find enough time, and if everything works as intended, the resulting classes would be a reference implementation for the new standard decimal floating point types, or at least a close one. I posted this request already some days ago, but by mistake I have posted it as a reply to a message it did not belong to. Sorry. Richard Kaiser