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- From: mwandel@bnr.ca (Markus Wandel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Commodore Arithmetic
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 02:50:39 GMT
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- Message-ID: <4fbodv$aam@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca>
- References: <96020719151143766@qcs.org>
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- Having discovered BCD arithmetic (in a TRS-80 Model 100 portable computer)
- I can't help but wonder why all manufacturers didn't do this. What you see
- (in decimal) is what you get. No weird rounding errors that you wouldn't
- already be familiar with from a pocket calculator. And not that much storage
- wastage either.
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- Markus Wandel Ottawa Ont. Canada (613) 592-1225
- markus@pinetree.org <-- NOT 'mwandel@bnr.ca' (that's for work only)
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