[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/24/2018 1:21 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 11:26:04 AM UTC-6, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> What data type of none-integer does
>> BASIC support that can do calculations with decimals without the
>> cumulative error common to floating point?
> 
> Just a wild guess, but maybe the DECIMAL data type?
> 
> $ help/library=basichelp data_types decimal
> 
> 
> DATA_TYPES
> 
>    DECIMAL
> 
>       The DECIMAL(d,s) data type keyword specifies  packed  decimal  data.   A
>       packed  decimal  value  has  a  specified  number  of  digits  (d) and a
>       specified decimal point position (s).

And VB.NET also got Decimal type.

Arne