On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:09 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
> However, when I run some tests, the resulting number is a 10-digit
> numeric. Perhaps I'm mixing units here, but isn't that beyond 8-byte?
> I mean, I've dealt with packed decimals years ago in Assembler, but when
> he says "8-byte numeric", isn't he meaning a type of n(8) ?
Bytes are binary, not decimal. The largest 8-byte number is hexadecimal
FFFFFFFF
>>> print int(0xFFFFFFFF)
4294967295
Count the number of digits in the output.
-- Ed Leafe
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