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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Fast conversions, another urban
Message-ID: <207@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 89 15:19:24 GMT
References: <4125@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <18000002@inmet> <1155@svx.SV.DG.COM>
Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <1155@svx.SV.DG.COM> gary@svx.SV.DG.COM () writes:
 >In article <18000002@inmet> callen@inmet writes:
 >>/* Written  8:53 am  Sep 22, 1989 by beyer@cbnewsh.UUCP in inmet:comp.arch */
 >>/* ---------- "Re: Fast conversions, another urban" ---------- */
 >>In article <136@bbxsda.UUCP>, scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:
 >>I have never done business-oriented calculations, but  it seems to me,
 >>as an outsider, that calculating everything in pennies solves the round-off
 >>problems (but perhaps no others), doesn't it?
 >
 >This is the second posting to state this...

Actually this is a repeat of an earlier posting.  It's rerun time, folks.
Please, let's not start this thread up again so soon.

 >>[ good explanation deleted ]

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Scott Amspoker
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM
(505) 345-5232