From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Terje Mathisen  schrieb:   
      
   > I still think the IBM DFP people did an impressively good job packing   
   > that much data into a decimal representation. :-)   
      
   Yes, that modulo 1000 packing is quite clever.  It is relatively   
   cheap to implement in hardware (which is the point, of course).   
   Not sure how easy it would be in software.   
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