Warp wrote:
> Paul Fuller <pgf### [at] optusnet com au> 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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