Oh, for BCD floating point.
My first computer with a language (SWTP 6800) had BCD math.
It had something like 6 byte mantissa and a 1 byte exponent.
That would give 11 digits with e +-99
Maybe we should have BCD data types.
Jan Steinman wrote:
>>From: "Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock@stripped>
>>Kenneth Hylton wrote something about SQL or QUERYs:
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>>>I NEVER use float or double to store values like you appear to be doing...
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>>FWIW, all of our financial database software stores values in either pennies or
> tenths of a cent, not dollars, to avoid decimals altogether.
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>FLOAT + money = lawsuit :-)
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