Is COBOL holding you hostage with Math?

Face it: nobody likes fractions, not even computers. When we talk about COBOL the first question on everyone’s mind is always Why are we still using it in so many critical places? Banks are still running COBOL, close to 7% of the GDP is dependent on COBOL in the form of payments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The IRS famously still uses COBOL, airlines still use COBOL (Adam Fle

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汎用機の固定小数点くらい今時なら64bit整数で表現できるのではないか？と思ってしまうんだけどダメなのかな。x64はBCD演算命令を廃止したんだけど