[Info-vax] New VSI Roadmap (yipee!)

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <a2f8fd37-08e8-4e8e-97d2-9aabc21a0d84 at googlegroups.com>,
	abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> writes:
>> 
>> Has it ever occured to you that Mr Froble used floating point on purpose
>> so he could divert those partial cents over to his Swiss bank account
>> and amassed a huge fortune since the 1980s ?
>> 
> 
> I would think that as long as the total number of digits remains less than the significant digit count for the floating point system used, there would be no loss of "cents".
> 

Really?

How much is $.10+$.10+$.10+$.10+$.10+$.10+$.10+$.10+$.10+$.10 done in
floating point?

> It was the Italian LIRE (sp?) that had the most problems.  With the counts easily exceeding even double precision significant digit limits.  Cobol and packed decimal saved the day...
> 


bill

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