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- From: hood@kpc.com (Robert Hood)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: integer/BCD/... dollars (was IEEE used for Dollars and Cents)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.162243.1377@kpc.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:22:43 GMT
- References: <2664312@zl2tnm.gen.nz> <27311@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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- In article <27311@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
- |> (Last word on this non-computer-architecture stuff :-) )
- |>
- |> I wrote:
- |> >> Signed integers are not an absolute must, but precision greater than
- |> >> one penny is; most businesses seem to keep records to five digits or so.
- |>
- |> In article <2664312@zl2tnm.gen.nz> don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
- |> >Figures are only _published_ to five digits or so. Bookkeeping must be
- |> >to the last cent,
- |>
- |> Sorry, I meant `five digits past the decimal point', the decimal point
- |> being dollars. These are apparently called `mills', i.e., thousanths
- |> of a cent ($0 + 0 cents + 0.001 cents = 1/1000 cents = 0.00001
- |> dollars).
- |> In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Lawrence Berkeley Lab CSE/EE (+1 510 486 5427)
- |> Berkeley, CA Domain: torek@ee.lbl.gov
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- From the American Heritage dictionary:
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- mill: A monetary unit equal to 1/1000 of the dollar of the United
- States.
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- Bob
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