2011/4/9 NightStrike <[email protected]>
>
> I'm being a little OT here, but I'm curious.. does that mean that
> COBOL was a language that gave very high accuracy compared to C of the
> day?
>
>
Cobol is quite anterior to C. It is not so much that it has high accuracy as
it avoids decimal to binary and binary to decimal conversions. In the
limited precision and memory available at the time the addition of cents
could quickly lose precision.
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