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To: HAL9000

No floating points?


14 posted on 01/31/2006 8:10:45 PM PST by txhurl (Gingrich/North '08 although I would like to have Powell if he'd straighten up)
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To: txflake

Depends on the software Data Dictionary and field definitions.Computers don't care. They do what they are programmed to do. I've worked on systems that go to 15 deci for a paper company that accounts for .00000005 piece of paper when shipping truckloads of reams of paper. And that was in 1992.


20 posted on 01/31/2006 8:33:31 PM PST by Cobra64
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