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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:17:04 -0000 (UTC), Lew Pitcher wrote:
>> and, yes, COBOL programmers are still in demand, mostly by financial
>> institutions that have hundreds of millions of lines of COBOL code to
>> maintain.
>
> I suspect a lot of those institutions have already gone out of business, 
> or are close to going out of business. And the amounts they have to pay 
> COBOL programmers to maintain their code are hastening that end.
>
>> Are you certain that you want your taxes to be calculated in
>> floatingpoint? ;-)
>
> How else would you handle compound interest?

In whatever manner is specified by the relevant regulations.

I don't know what those regulations say, but I would not be at all
surprised if some of them require wide fixed-point calculations of some
sort with carefully specified rounding rules.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
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