Re: Lua workshop: call for backup presentations.

["Martin Schröder" <martin@...>]

2006/8/24, Dave Dodge <dododge@dododge.net>:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:29:28AM -0700, Sam Roberts wrote:
> > How much slower is it than onboard integral arithmetic? Don't some
> > processors support BCD instructions?
>
> Some 1960s IBM mainframes such as the 360 have BCD instructions.  I

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal, IBM's
BCD is 6-bit, while normal BCD is 4-bit.

Oracle 7 used BCD to store numbers. And of course COBOL does. :-)

Best
  Martin