23 Sep
2004
23 Sep
'04
3:30 a.m.
>>>> "Tom" == Tom Jennings
<tomj(a)wps.com> writes:
Tom> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 19:08, William Donzelli wrote:
> > There are SOME people (I am NOT one) who
actually feel that >
> DECIMAL is the right way to go in computers!
>
> If the computers are doing my bank statements, then yes, I am one
> of them.
Tom> I don't see this page as a need to 'return to decimal hardware'
Tom> so much as people really need to consider accuracy and precision
Tom> et al in arithemetic systems.
Tom> These are turing-derived machines, after all, and can do decimal
Tom> arithmetic when we want them to.
And indeed they usually do, when you write in Cobol.
paul