1999-01-03|Euroland or Bust

To the Editor

I read the excellent article first appeared in the Discovery Magazine (1998-10) reprinted in the Ottawa Citizen (1999-01-03). However, I was puzzled by the statement below about multiplication and division.

There are other software potholes on the road to the euro. To get from dollars to francs, for example, requires a multiplication - there are roughly six francs to the dollar. But converting dollars to euros will require a division, because there will be around 1.1 dollars to the euro. The program that now does the dollar-franc conversion at Crédit Agricole, one of the world's leading money changers, cannot divide: it was designed only to multiply.

Since a division is actually a multiplication by 1/divider, I do not understand why any software that can multiply cannot divide. The software may not be able to deal with required number of decimal digits, i.e., 0.0000 instead of 0.00.
Your explanation would be appreciated.
Thank you very much for your attention.

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