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The article suggested hardware BCD (packed decimals) was superior to floating point. That is true but not for the reason stated. The reason old time BCD was bet
by upofadown 12y ago
The article suggested hardware BCD (packed decimals) was superior to floating point. That is true but not for the reason stated. The reason old time BCD was better was simply because they were treated at counting numbers (integers). If you use binary integers you get all of the same advantages with none of the serious headaches of BCD.