On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:18:57AM +0800, Steven Michalske wrote: > > If floating point numbers wer the end all solution why do banks still > use BCD math? Because it removes the errors you are talking about. > But we wouldn't use BCD math it's not required. >
I would suspect that this has more to do with the use of COBOL, than the benefits of floating-point versus fixed-point math. (And anyway, everything banks do is iterative, so the error we are discussing applies far more to them than it does to us.) Andrew _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
