Re: Decimal versus binary arithmetic was Re: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Future of the COBOL Standard"

Robert wrote:
>
> You thought that because 'everyone knows' binary fractions are
> inaccurate. Some refuse to believe the number is an integer, not a
> fraction. That was my whole point -- we could have been storing
> currency amounts (dollars/pounds/zlotnys and cents) in binary all
> along. We never needed packed decimal. It was an IBM sales gimmick,
> and it worked.

The alternative explanation was that the computer - first used in
accounting 
departments - had to exactly reproduce the results obtained by adding 
machines and comptompters in order to be accepted in a commercial 
enviornment. Therefore, IBM invested untold treasure and time to develop 
circuitry to exactly mimic manual methods.

But of course that's what you'd expect the Illuminati and the Freemasons
to 
say, directed as they are by their alien overlords.