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On 01/06/2015 18:02, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-06-01, BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>
>> At one time the choice was integer or floating point in many languages,
>> unless you were specifically using a business language such as Cobol.
>
> My recollection in the early days of home computers is that many BASIC
> implementations had BCD floating point instead of binary.  Back then
> most CPUs had instructions specifcally for dealing with BCD
> represented with 4-bits per digit.  Dunno if they still do, I can't
> even remember the last time I did calculations in BCD.
>
>> I think the Sinclair computer barely had integer types so the choice
>> was even narrower.
>

Didn't Turbo C have compiler options to allow either BCD or fp?

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Mark Lawrence