On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 23:51 -0400, Ann W. Harrison wrote:

> David Johnson wrote:
> >
> > The 9 _digit_ ISBN can be converted to a BigInt before storage. Strip
> > out the hyphens and it is simply a piece of numeric data. I would still
> > make it a BigInt since INT only gets you into the 4xx,xxx,xxx range in 9
> > digit numbers.
>
> Count your fingers again... int gives you a full 9 digits... plus some..
>
>
> Cheers,

I plead exhaustion ... just chased the kids all day at the zoo.

I was under the impression that Int was a 32 bit platform-native
integer. I must be mistaken.