On 17 Dec 2018, at 04:32, D Burgess <dburges...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Banks still use, as they have for a very long time, Binary Coded
>> Decimal, or some equivalent that does not suffer from a loss of
>> accuracy, so all this foofaraw to do with floating point representation
>> of various amounts of currency does not apply to the real world.

> As do insurance companies and many in the manufacturing world (inventory).
> There is a lot to like about BCD.

And do any processors/computers have hardware for that these days?


-- 
Cheers  --  Tim
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