Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 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?

  And 1/3 cannot be represented exactly in *any* base being currently
used in any computer system. So what?

  Besides, 1/10 isn't an integer, so what would BCD integer registers
help that? Any solution you devise will also work with plain binary
registers as well.

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                                                          - Warp

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