24 Oct
2011
24 Oct
'11
1:53 p.m.
On 24 Oct 2011 at 12:11, Fred Cisin wrote:
Although with a radix of 10, which MAKES SENSE for
financial, I still
think of that as being scaled integers. It is not an exponential
structure like the IEEE Floating Point Representation Standard.
...and there's always CBASIC, PASCAL/M, SuperCalc, etc. There was a
mindset (seems to have largely faded) that a program was no good for
finance unless it could boast decimal computation.
--Chuck