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		YesThatTom2 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DEC64: Decimal Floating Point (2020) If they reversed the order of the fields, you could sort them by just pretending they are int64’s.

Someone 15 days ago [–]

No you couldn’t, given “Normalization is not required”, so we have

    10³ × 9 < 10¹ × 100000

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