Re:Kotlin Money
by kens on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @03:00PM
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The IBM 1401 mainframe (1959) optionally supported pounds/shillings/pence (£sd) arithmetic in hardware. In those days, there were 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound, so arithmetic with UK money was non-trivial. (This wasn't even microcode; this was literally boards full of transistors to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and format currency values.)
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Re:Kotlin Money
by eriksencosta on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @03:13PM
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I love to learn more about the history of computing. Thanks.