On 30/11/2025 06:25, Brian Westerman wrote:
I'm not sure that I would gain anything from the suggestion of making
them fullword fields. Reducing the limit to a little over 4 billion
from 9 billion is probably not a big deal, but I'm not sure that much
is saved changing the current AP to adding to a Fullword. Am I
wrong?
A four byte packed decimal field has 7 digits plus sign
for a maximum value of 9.999999 million, not 9 billion.
A four byte signed binary has a max value of 2.14 billion
Switching from four byte packed decimal to four byte binary
increases the range by a factor of 214.
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Martin
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