Decimal V Binary??

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> writes:

 Tom> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 19:08, William Donzelli wrote:
 >> > There are SOME people (I am NOT one) who actually feel that >
 >> DECIMAL is the right way to go in computers!
 >> 
 >> If the computers are doing my bank statements, then yes, I am one
 >> of them.

 Tom> I don't see this page as a need to 'return to decimal hardware'
 Tom> so much as people really need to consider accuracy and precision
 Tom> et al in arithemetic systems.

 Tom> These are turing-derived machines, after all, and can do decimal
 Tom> arithmetic when we want them to.

And indeed they usually do, when you write in Cobol.

    paul