At 01:56 PM 05-12-00 +0200, you wrote:

>Yess! It was about time to fix this

LOL !! 90 million mathematical theorists might or might not agree with you !

For a paper on the issue, see

http://www.math.grin.edu/~stone/courses/fundamentals/IEEE-reals.html

Cheers,
H.

>Riho-Rene Ellermaa
>senior programmer
>Hansabank
>lds
> >
> >
> > Dialect 1 store this field as FLOAT using the IEEE definition
> > and so what
> > you store is not always what you get. Try to create the database in
> > dialect 3. It will store this field internally using an
> > INT64. This should fix
> > the problem.
> >
> > []s
> >
> > Carlos
> > WarmBoot Informatica - http://www.warmboot.com.br
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> >
> >
>
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