, November 15, 2001 11:16 PM
To: Shankar Unni
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: About huge numbers
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Shankar Unni wrote:
Thank you for your answers.
Generally, you don't want to store currencies in floating point,
anyway,
and it's unfortunate that MySQL implements
Gyulay Gabor writes:
Please let me know, how to handle huge numbers.
I'll give you a suggestion or two, but first of all
I must ask you to set your time to something more
correct. If you're in the UK (or Portugal), your time
is off by about 7 hours. If you're elsewhere, I guess
your time zone
| One more question is how to transfer these values through
| the MySQL C api ?
try this site...
http://www.mathtools.net/C++/Extra_precision_computation/
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Gyulay Gabor wrote:
The problem is that I need to store numbers with lot more
than 16 decimal digits - e.g. 1234567890123456789012345.12
[...]
The reason is why we need this that there're several
currencies (like italian lire) which requires this kind of
precision.
Excellent answer from
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El Jueves 15 Noviembre 2001 13:15, escribiste:
Gyulay Gabor wrote:
The problem is that I need to store numbers with lot more
than 16 decimal digits - e.g. 1234567890123456789012345.12
[...]
The reason is why we need this that there're
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Shankar Unni wrote:
Thank you for your answers.
Generally, you don't want to store currencies in floating point, anyway,
and it's unfortunate that MySQL implements DECIMAL as floating point rather
than a variable-length BCD (which is exact).
Yes. This is strange,
