[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Dave Froble]

On 1/28/2023 8:28 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> On 1/28/2023 6:19 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> On 2023-01-28 23:35, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 1/28/2023 3:01 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>>>>>> Consider the case where the numbers represent money.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Who cares what the numbers represent?  For example, if you round to
>
> One of the absolute FIRST things that I was told about floating point
> variables in my first programming class was to NEVER use them to represent
> money.
> --scott
>

What if you didn't have a choice?

RSTS/E V04b

Signed word integers
Strings
Single and double D-float

That's all there was ...

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