Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ingr!garth!smryan
From: smryan@garth.UUCP (s m ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: data types for money (was Who uses BASIC these days)
Message-ID: <2902@garth.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 89 00:03:10 GMT
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Cobol does more than just money arithmetic in decimal. Justifying variables
of different precisions for add or subtract requires multiplies by ten.
Truncating after multiplying requires divides by ten.
-- 
18. So Othin placed the ringed bane               Steven Ryan: ingr!garth!smryan
and hid from sight the brother slain.              2400 Geng Road, Palo Alto, CA
`This gold is given, great its glow,       ...or as it is known in your country,
but little good your folk will know.'                      polyunsaturated ghee.