somewhat OT: the return of decimal mode

[Don]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 10/11/2006 at 10:37 AM Fred Cisin wrote:
> 
>> Has somebody invented Binary Coded Decimal?
> 
> I'm a big fan of XS3 and biquinary, myself. :)

"Decimal" does not imply BCD.  My decimal math
package uses "binary" encoding -- but "thinks"
in decimal.