boolean is not SQL datatype and it's unclear what "deterministic"
means here.

Mladen Gogala wrote:
create or replace function
isnumeric(str varchar2) return boolean deterministic
as
  num number:=0;
begin
  num:=to_number(str);
  return(true);
exception
  when others then
return(false);
end;
/

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