In <listserv%201005031819000391.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 05/03/2010 at 06:19 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>I'm calling that simply incompetent display-to-numeric conversion, I can call a rock an orange, but I still won't be able to get juice out of it. The problem is clearly in the conversion between bases. >And as you point out, the limitation persist >with DFP; merely its domain has been narrowed. c/narrowed/changed/ -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html