The standard device for giving Java access to packed-decimal data is to
convert these data into double-precision (eight-byte) BFP values. This is
always possible, and to the extent that Java is good at any arithmetic, it
is good at floating-point arithmetic, which it uses very heavily indeed.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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