colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (11/20/84)
[1 rasbucknik = ? dollars] > I have always been surprised that business people didn't just use 64 > bit integers, and keep the amounts in CENTS. No BCD required, can > take advantage of nice fast machine instructions, etc. They used to do it that way. It was called "fixed-point" arithmetic. I guess the schools don't teach it any more ... -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel