Morning François, Per wrote :
>> >> you cant change the world, change yourself!" might usefully be applied to >> >> the problem. you replied : >> Or in this situation; if more serious work is involved, avoid Qdos/Smsq ;-) I'm afraid it isn't any better in the mainframe, Unix server or PC world. Floating point numbers either can or cannot be represented accurately. You could use C68 and use IEEE format floats (or even doubles) but you still cannot represent numbers like '10 and one third' correctly. I work in a software house which writes financial packages for finance companies, Banks, the motor industry etc and accuracy is needed - but you can't get it with floating point. All our calculations are done in integer values - even for currencies which have huge number - like the old Italian Lira (of which I'm very fond - 1977 was the only time I've ever been a millionaire !). QDOSMSQ's main problem , as you have found, is not so much the range of numbers that can be represented, but the way that the software displays it. I'm sure some of the procedure wriuters amongst us, who understand these floating point things (I don't !), could write a routine to take in a float and return a 'proper' string representation for display purposes ........... Regards, Norman. ------------------------------------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com ------------------------------------- This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
