Re: Glaring Excel calc bug.

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On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:32:29 -0400, "Earl Kiosterud"
<someone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've often wondered, aren't computers fast enough these days that they could do decimal
math, instead of having to do binary conversions? Even if the decimal math had do be done
in software? Better yet, of course, would be for the CPU do be able to do it natively, as
IBM systems were doing decades ago. It seems to me we mess around with having to handle the
errors for a far greater time than additional time the computer might need, even for a large
job. Just a thought.

The Rexx programming language does all calculations in decimal to
arbitrary precision (limited only by available memory).
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