8 Apr
2004
8 Apr
'04
5:25 a.m.
Hi Ben
I ment a even power of 2. sorry for the confusion. The
post about the packed decimal is actually quite correct.
Most banks don't like binary and the really don't like
floating point binary.
Dwight
From: "ben franchuk"
<bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Er, I think (or at least interpreted) Tony's
point to be why we are
celebrating this now at 40 (i.e. base 10) when 32 (base 2) is so much
nerdier?
How the heck do you get 32 from base 2?
Ben.