From: "bowman" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <37146957 DOT 5D620FD0 AT ballistic DOT com> <7f2ifg$262$2 AT news DOT luth DOT se> Subject: Re: Business math Lines: 11 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:26:40 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.4.224.80 X-Trace: newsfeed.slurp.net 924121612 208.4.224.80 (Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:26:52 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:26:52 CDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Martin Str|mberg wrote in message news:7f2ifg$262$2 AT news DOT luth DOT se... > 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.