I was a little confused by this one, too.  I was wondering if Bernd might be 
referring to ANSI X12 version 4010?  I thought EDIFACT was versioned more like 
D97A, D04B, etc.?

Leah



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 From: Samantha Scott <[email protected]>
To: Eckenfels. Bernd <[email protected]> 
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Friday Fun: EDI Standards Quizz
 
Wouldn't that depend on the definition of the element?  Doesn't N3 just mean 
there are 3 implied decimal places in the number as written?  That means if the 
element is defined as X characters long then the whole number length of the 
value can be up to X-3 with up to a .999 afterwards.  So if it was 10 
characters long defined as N3 the largest number would be 999999.999

I can't think of any EDIFACT elements offhand that would be defined as N3 
though.  I only do a handful of documents in EDIFACT but most numeric elements 
are either real with a defined number of places to the right of the decimal if 
applicable or they are integers defined as N0.  Its the application side where 
I usually run into fields that are defined with implied decimals.

On Jun 8, 2012, at 2:35 PM, Eckenfels. Bernd wrote:

> Hello List,
> 
> since it is Friday, I do have a little Quizz for the gang... or actually it 
> is a rant, but anyway. Given a field in EDIFACT with the format 
> representation N3, what do you people guess is the largest numerical value 
> that field can represent (in Syntax Version 4.1)? :)
> 
> Greetings
> Bernd
> 
> Hint: it is not 999 :)
> 
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