22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
3:47 p.m.
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 19:08, William Donzelli wrote:
I don't see this page as a need to 'return to decimal hardware' so much
as people really need to consider accuracy and precision et al in
arithemetic systems.
These are turing-derived machines, after all, and can do decimal
arithmetic when we want them to.
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.