Re: data types for money (was Who uses BASIC these days)

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From: s m ryan
Date: Thu, 25 May 1989 00:03

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Cobol does more than just money arithmetic in decimal. Justifying variables
of different precisions for add or subtract requires multiplies by ten.
Truncating after multiplying requires divides by ten.
-- 
18. So Othin placed the ringed bane               Steven Ryan: ingr!garth!smryan
and hid from sight the brother slain.              2400 Geng Road, Palo Alto, CA
`This gold is given, great its glow,       ...or as it is known in your country,
but little good your folk will know.'                      polyunsaturated ghee.

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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (s m ryan)
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Subject: Re: data types for money (was Who uses BASIC these days)
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Date: 25 May 89 00:03:10 GMT
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