[Info-vax] Off-topic: NASDAQ

[abrsvc]

On Friday, 7 May 2021 at 16:20:16 UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Is NASDAQ still using NonStop? 
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> Their IT got in the news today: 
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> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/warren-buffett-broke-nasdaq-system-is-unable-to-record-high-berkshire-hathaway-share-price/ar-BB1gqX4w 
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> Arne
That article doesn't make sense unless the value is stored as the number of 1000ths of cents per share as an integer value.  In this case, the actual value would be displayed inserting the decimal point in the proper place.  This is one of the reasons that Cobol is still used in finance because of packed decimal where there is really no limit to the number of digits.