Earlier than the 60s. Had to work on a system in the 90s to “transpile” IBM minicomputer code to C.
Useful for accounting since what you see is what you get as far as cents and other decimals go. 1/5, and thus 1/10, can only be approximated in floating point.
Earlier than the 60s. Had to work on a system in the 90s to “transpile” IBM minicomputer code to C.
Useful for accounting since what you see is what you get as far as cents and other decimals go. 1/5, and thus 1/10, can only be approximated in floating point.
Not that I’m defending MySQL