In a Rexx program I start out by executing NUMERIC DIGITS 15 (and I have also tried 11 and 13 and gotten the same result).
For 8947 * 8640000 I am getting a result of 7.73020800E+10 rather than the desired 77302080000. Is this to be expected? I interpret the Rexx documentation as saying that a result is only converted to scientific notation when it exceeds NUMERIC DIGITS. Where am I going wrong? Or more to the point, how do I get the desired result? (Why do I care? I am subsequently going to add a relatively small number to the product and don't want to lose low-order digits.) I tried using FORMAT but unless I use it in every subsequent calculation Rexx goes back to scientific notation and I lose low order digits. Thanks, Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
