On 21/11/21 2:18 pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
My recollection is that it was quite common back in the days before FP hardware was "a thing" on small computers. CPM and DOS compilers for various languages often gave the user a choice between binary FP and decimal (BCD) FP.
It's also very common for handheld calculators to work in decimal. Most of HP's classic calculators used a CPU that was specifically designed for doing BCD arithmetic, and many versions of it didn't even have a way of doing arithmetic in binary! -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
