Go 2, here we come

Re:Go 2, here we come by vanderZwan on Thursday November 29, 2018 @01:48PM (#18562673)

Given the age of COBOL and the age of IEEE floating points, it would be very unlikely if it used a floating point number.

(And yes, I know that Conrad Zuse invented floating point over a century ago ;))

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Re:Go 2, here we come by michaelcampbell on Thursday November 29, 2018 @03:18PM (#18563563)

Probably implementation dependent, but the COBOL I used that put me through college used some variation of BCD (binary coded decimal).

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Re:Go 2, here we come by coldtea on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:37PM (#18565231)

Cobol uses fixed point decimal

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