> I would have thought people use normal decimal numbers everywhere. US Government Bonds, the touchstone of the core Bloomberg user, are traded in 256ths of a

> I would have thought people use normal decimal numbers everywhere. US Government Bonds, the touchstone of the core Bloomberg user, are traded in 256ths of a dollar. The notation there, however, is not fractions. The number shown is whole dollars, then 32nds, then 8ths of a 32nd; except 4/8ths is shown as '+' Fun times...