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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Fast conversions, another urban myth?
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Date: 11 Oct 89 17:10:55 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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In article <2268@csadfa.oz> gwg@csadfa.oz (George Gerrity) writes:
>     Andrew Klossner gives a contrived (his words) example of a case where
> decimal arithmetic is (supposedly) faster than binary.

Not  only is it contrived, but it's unlikely to come up in financial
calculations, since one does not tend to multiply dollars by dollars.
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Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
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