Re: Simple math failing - PHP Bug?

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Mike Ford wrote:
for.  (Some early business-oriented computers, and some calculators
(especially financial ones) did use a system called binary-coded
decimal -- BCD -- to calculate "accurately" in the sense you mean,
but the fact that they were never widely used and have died out
almost totally should tell you something about their usefulness.)

Wasn't that just a way to store 11 as 0x11 and 56 as 0x56? x86 has BCD instructions too.

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