Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!nsc!voder!gino From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Accountants, Finance, Language Message-ID: <533@voder.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 20:40:05 EST Article-I.D.: voder.533 Posted: Thu Nov 29 20:40:05 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 06:04:29 EST References: <62@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 16> 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)