clipka wrote:
> Business doesn't give a damn about high precision, as long as rounding rules are
> precisely followed.

That too. And you can't follow the rounding rules with floats.  But if you 
add up ten dimes, it better come out to a dollar. Whether you do that with 
rounding or with decimal arithmetic, it doesn't matter much, but it's much 
easier to know it works if you use decimal arithmetic.

One of the mainframes I first worked on has the "Scientific Computing Unit" 
(floating point) and the "Business Computing Unit" (decimal arithmetic and 
output formatting) as optional coprocessors.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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"some 70% to 80% of UK plc business transactions are still based on Cobol"

What, exaclty, does that mean?

80% of transaction processing systems are COBOL?

80% of "UK plc businesses" use COBOL?

80% of business transactions "touch" at least one COBOL system somewhere 
along the line?

This could be interpretted so many different ways...



http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-cobol-1820.html

It burns. IT BURNS!! >_<

What sick, sick person thought that

   SUBTRACT 1 FROM Bottles GIVING Remaining-Bottles

is simpler than

   let b' = b-1

?!

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