On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:

> On 13 Nov 2014, at 1:01pm, Dinesh Navsupe <dinesh.navs...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > My need is 23 decimal digits of precision. We work on complex payout
> > calculation engine where in formula outputs are quite large numbers and
> > clients do not want to round off.
>


> [...].  So for 23 digits of accuracy you seem to have a requirement to
> manipulate
>
> 100,000,000,000,000,000,000
>

Assuming he means Oracle's NUMBER(23, 10), and given [1], that's more

9,999,999,999,999.9999999999

i.e. "just" under 10 trillion max, with 10 decimal digits accuracy, and not
100 million trillion.

FWIW. --DD

[1] http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Number
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