Warp wrote:
> Paul Fuller <pgf### [at] optusnetcomau> wrote:
>> The 'packed decimal' format was really perfect for banks and similar.
> 
>   I really can't understand why. The user doesn't need to know how
> integers are represented internally, so why would he care?

You know that 1/10 can't be exactly represented in binary, but can be 
represented exactly in decimal, right?

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