On 01/06/2015 18:02, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2015-06-01, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote:
At one time the choice was integer or floating point in many languages,
unless you were specifically using a business language such as Cobol.
My recollection in the early days of home computers is that many BASIC
implementations had BCD floating point instead of binary. Back then
most CPUs had instructions specifcally for dealing with BCD
represented with 4-bits per digit. Dunno if they still do, I can't
even remember the last time I did calculations in BCD.
I think the Sinclair computer barely had integer types so the choice
was even narrower.
Didn't Turbo C have compiler options to allow either BCD or fp?
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