From:	"bowman" <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Business math
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Date:	Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:26:40 -0600
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Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se> wrote in message
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> What are those? "Banker's math" and "bcd"?

Binary Coded Decimal.  Bankers have anxiety attacks about floating point; a
mil here, a mil there, pretty soon you are talking about serious money.

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