C needs BCD -- why BCD? Accountants!

Fri Nov 9 16:21:20 AEST 1984

I have always been surprised that business people didn't just use 64
bit integers, and keep the amounts in CENTS.  No BCD required, can
take advantage of nice fast machine instructions, etc.
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