I remember EBCDIC being used heavily during mid '80's on Fortran punch cards...
-----Original Message----- From: Fred Tydeman <tydeman.f...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2024 10:08 AM To: stepbystepf...@comcast.net Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Bill total does not match real total Actually, DFP (decimal floating point) has been part of gcc since 2005. DFP is now part of standard C (C23). DFP was first proposed for C in 2003 N1016 <https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1016.htm> 01-Sep-2003 Mak, Extension for the programming language C to support decimal floating-point arithmetic Intel 8080 and x86 CPUs both have a limited instruction set for BCD (binary coded decimal). The first computer I ever used (in 1967), the IBM 1620, used BCD floating-point. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
