Manfred Lindenmaier wrote directly, not using the mailing-list (unfortunately):

> I've just read a announce that DECIMAL and NUMERIC will 
> bnehave the same...
> 
> ... my Problem is that I've got to store scientific numbers 
> betweeen 0.00001
> and 1E+300. _Can I do that with DECIMAL? Or is this Variable 
> like FLOAT only
> useable between -1E63 and +1E63...

As written in the manual you have two chances: fixed point literal
(up to 38 digits, not enough for up to 300 digits) and float which is
not able to handle exponents of 300, no matter how this datatype is named.
--> no chance to store this kind of number as number in the database.

http://www.sapdb.org/htmhelp/06/631425a4a211d2a97100a0c9449261/frameset.htm

Elke
SAP Labs Berlin
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