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by rhelz 317 days ago
My father showed me the assembly language for a minicomputer, and I can remember being puzzled why the computer--a binary machine--had instructions for decimal arithmetic.

He smiled and had me add $0.02 + $0.03. When I didn't get $0.05, I was enlightened :-) It was like a koan.

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because those are hundredths of a dollar, not cents