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Given the age of COBOL and the age of IEEE floating points, it would be very unlikely if it used a floating point number. (And yes, I know that Conrad Zuse inv
by vanderZwan 8y ago
Given the age of COBOL and the age of IEEE floating points, it would be very unlikely if it used a floating point number.
(And yes, I know that Conrad Zuse invented floating point over a century ago ;))
- michaelcampbell 8y agoProbably implementation dependent, but the COBOL I used that put me through college used some variation of BCD (binary coded decimal).
- coldtea 8y agoCobol uses fixed point decimal