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BCD doesn't really make it easier. Fixed point can, but that's ultimately a typing thing that works just fine in binary as well.
by monocasa 4y ago
BCD doesn't really make it easier. Fixed point can, but that's ultimately a typing thing that works just fine in binary as well.
- denton-scratch 4y agoYou're right; but COBOL BCD types allowed arbitrary precision, and it was super-easy to debug data; the hex represention was the same as the decimal representation.