Here's what I did. www.google.com
search criteria: site:ibm.com java packed decimal Most interesting hit (based upon 15 seconds of analysis) was a web page apparently authored by Mike Cowlishaw (IBM) regarding all of the issues surrounding attempting to use floating point arithmetic for commercial data processing. http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/ First paragraph from the above web page: "Most computers today support binary floating-point in hardware. While suitable for many purposes, binary floating-point arithmetic should not be used for financial, commercial, and user-centric applications or web services because the decimal data used in these applications cannot be represented exactly using binary floating-point. (See the Frequently Asked Questions pages for more explanation and examples.)" Brian On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:04:35 -0500, Benjamin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Where is some code to process Z/Series packed decimal? I know it is not a >primative data type. Is there any conversion routines? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
