Gebruik wetenskaplike notasie, byvoorbeeld 10**5
(use scientific notation, e.g. 10**5)

----- Original Message -----
From: Nando Dessena
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 21 January, 2008 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Triilions of Zim Dollars


Helen,

H> There are no plans in the pipeline to support 128-bit
H> integers in Firebird 2.5 or Firebird 3. About the future - who
H> knows?

I think the problem of huge exact numerics is better solved through
BCD numbers (as at least Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL do) than
huge scaled integers.

Ciao
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Nando Dessena
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