On Dec 1, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
I don't recall ever using BCD explicitly, but I may have been too
inexperienced to notice. Never programmed in Pascal since.
Oleg,
One used BCD for money. I once worked at a place where one of the
programmers wrote the pension reporting programs for the IBM 370 in PL/
I using floating point arithmetic. When people saw the reports and
noticed that they had strangely rounded balances in their accounts,
the whole thing was scrapped and re-written using decimal numbers.
Geoff.
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