Sytze de Boer wrote: > I wonder if some of you care to comment. > > There's a zillion places in my app where something is updated and an > example could be > > lnOv=10 > lnNv=20 > newvalue=lnOv/lcNv > replace currentcost with newvalue > > No problem sofar > > If lnOV=0 > we end up with numeric overflow > > Don't you mean if lnNv = 0 you get numeric overflow? It must the divisor = 0 to get a numeric overflow. If there's a possibility that the divisor could be 0 you just need to put some code in to avoid it or take some other action.
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