From: "Rich" 

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   Unless you divide or anything else that produces a non-integral =
value.  The BCD load and save still used the internal floating point =
representation.

Rich

  "Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message =
news:3dcdbd84{at}w3.nls.net...
  Intel NPX's back to the original 8087 are all capable of working with =
64 bit integers and loading/storing in packed BCD format.  For
  financial work the BCD format works well and has no rounding errors.  =
All one needs do is use an implied decimal point (i.e. scale
  by 100, or 1000 if working in mills)

  There is a reason why some places won' give up their COBOL compilers =
;->

  "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message =
news:3dcd8c7b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  > If you're dealing with money then a class named 'Decimal' seems more
  > appropriate than 'Math'. FWIW.
  >
  > Paul



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that produces a non-integral value.  The BCD load and save still =
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internal floating point representation.
 
Rich
 

  "Tony Ingenoso" <tonyiNOSPAM{at}attglobal.net&g=">mailto:tonyiNOSPAM{at}attglobal.net">tonyiNOSPAM{at}attglobal.net&g=
t;=20
  wrote in message news:3dcdbd84{at}w3.nls.net...In=
tel=20
  NPX's back to the original 8087 are all capable of working with 64 bit =

  integers and loading/storing in packed BCD format.  =
Forfinancial work=20
  the BCD format works well and has no rounding errors.  All one =
needs do=20
  is use an implied decimal point (i.e. scaleby 100, or 1000 if =
working in=20
  mills)There is a reason why some places won' give up their =
COBOL=20
  compilers ;->"Paul Ranson" <paul{at}barkto.com>">mailto:paul{at}barkto.com">paul{at}barkto.com>
wrote in =
message news:3dcd8c7b$1{at}w3.nls.net...=
> If=20
  you're dealing with money then a class named 'Decimal' seems =
more>=20
  appropriate than 'Math'. FWIW.>>=20
Paul

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