> Because when you're talking about thousands of dollars as the smallest
> increment, that wastes space.
Oh I see, so it's like a base-10 float?
> And usually (at least in modern standards) these numbers go up to
> something like 38 digits. So why would an "int" be better than packed
> decimal in terms of processing speed?
It would avoid the need for custom hardware, but obviously it works out
faster per $ to get the non-standard CPUs if that's what they actually use.
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