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Dealing with Olde English currency units (and other non-decimal currency units) may have been "a fun challenge" for programmers... but it does NOT sadden me tha
by jaza 12y ago
Dealing with Olde English currency units (and other non-decimal currency units) may have been "a fun challenge" for programmers... but it does NOT sadden me that programmers have seldom had to deal with them! It would have led to a whole world of hellish pain. Have we not suffered enough pain as it is, what with character encoding, timezone handling, y2k-incompatible dates, spatial coordinate / projection systems, etc?
- to3m 12y agoI'm not even sure there'd be much to do: just store everything in sixteenths a of a farthing and format on output, much as people do with tenths of a penny today. If anything the numbers are actually slightly more convenient for machines with no divide instruction.