This math scares me
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com
Tue Mar 13 17:54:45 EST 2001
In article <984521930.27710 at newsmaster-04.atnet.at>, Werner Schiendl wrote:
>> Bill Gates got this right in the early days, delivering two Basic
>> interpreters: binary floating point for speed, and decimal floating
>> point for money and such. (I never looked at how well his interpreters
>> did...I just used them.)
>
>Does this make a difference, as soon as arithmetics takes place?
Yes. All FP calculations took place in BCD. You got exact
results as long as your values didn't exceed the
representations limits.
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