Hi,

On 9 Jul 2012, at 06:02, Steve Kargl wrote:

> If you're doing accouting, hopefully, you're using BCD.

Would be nice, but it's far too slow for financial analysis; the chip designers 
go out of their way to provide fast floating point. Fortunately 53 bits is 
usually plenty with 2dp max.

--
Bob Bishop
r...@gid.co.uk




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