Re: gEDA-user: pcb crooked traces [OT]

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:18:57AM +0800, Steven Michalske wrote:
> 
> If floating point numbers wer the end all solution why do banks still
> use BCD math?  Because it removes the errors you are talking about.
> But we wouldn't use BCD math it's not required.
>

I would suspect that this has more to do with the use of COBOL,
than the benefits of floating-point versus fixed-point math.

(And anyway, everything banks do is iterative, so the error we
 are discussing applies far more to them than it does to us.)


Andrew

 


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