strings (dollar.cents) into floats

[David H Wild]

In article <1188586725.667740.255700 at o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
   MRAB <google at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> > When I worked on the British Railways National Payroll system, about
> > 35 years ago, we, in common with many large users, wrote our system to
> > deal with integer amounts of pennies, and converted to pounds,
> > shillings and pence in the output part of the system.
> >
> So you never handled halfpennies?

Halfpennies had disappeared from the BR accounting system before the first
use of computers for accounting work.

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