On 5/3/2011 8:22 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> 'William Chops" Westfield '<westfw@mac.com wrote:
>   =20
>> 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.
>>     =20
> That's a argument for integer versus floating point, not for a BCD
> representation of that integer in particular.  What you really need is ex=
tra
> wide integer support.  32 bits is not enough dynamic range when in units =
of
> cents.
>
>
>   =20
Aren't there 8 bits in a dollar?
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