Accountants, Finance, Language

[Gino Bloch]

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> What financial people 'need' is a fixed point representation.  Fixed point
> numbers are like integers, only you get shifting of the product in a
> multiplication or the quotient in a division to make the decimal point line
> up in the right bit position.  You get EXACT results, and an out-of-range
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^           ^^^^^
> number causes a very conventional integer over/underflow.  Fixed point
> -- 
> Kurt Guntheroth
> John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
> {uw-beaver,decvax!microsof,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,ssc-vax}!fluke!kurt

Two of my friends and I want to divide $100.00 equally ...
-- 
Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino)