>All I meant was that with a decimal exponent, the units could be
>dollars,
>and additions and subtractions of cents would be exact (assuming the
>mantissa has enough bits), with no worries about rounding. Which is
>the
>basis for this whole discussion.

This is called fixed point.  All that is required is that you keep track of the 
decimal point yourself...sort of like using a slide rule.

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