Calculators on desktops (was Re: Octal)

[Dave McGuire]

On Sep 3, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
>>    I guess I should've been more specific on my position.  It *should*
>> be an I/O thing.  Doing arithmetic in BCD is not something I'd thought
>> of...but being inherently tied to decimal, it likely wouldn't be the
>> best choice for the underlying computational engine for a calculator
>> which is supposed to support multiple bases.
>
> I think most handheld calculators use BCD arithmetic.

   Yes, I believe this is the case.  Not so much, though, for 
computer-based calculator programs, which (I thought?) were what we're 
talking about. ;)

             -Dave

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