'William Chops" Westfield ' <westfw@mac.com wrote:
> IIRC, COBOL has BCD data types.  Or a decimal data type usually
> implemented as BCD.  Or something.  It allows the language to do
> "exact" operations on quantities of money, where the business types
> apparently don't trust the vague inexactness of floating point.

That's a argument for integer versus floating point, not for a BCD
representation of that integer in particular.  What you really need is extr=
a
wide integer support.  32 bits is not enough dynamic range when in units of
cents.


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