Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ape4 1649 days ago
Ancient COBOL had binary coded decimal.
1 comments

Every database and most programing languages have decimal floating point types. They usually don't use BCD, and instead use some more efficient representation. But anyway, the representation is irrelevant.

By the way, integral BCD (what COBOL did most of the time) is useless.