RE: Notation question

Aaron,

Personally, I'd go with door number one. The reason, aside from I'm used to
it, is that that's how fields are defined in RPG DDS CL.  18 5 is eighteen
long, five of which are decimal.

Tom

 |  -----Original Message-----
 |  From: Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) [mailto:ALBartell@taylorcorp.com]
 |  Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:02
 |  To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
 |  Subject: Notation question
 |
 |
 |  We are creating some documentation for our standards and
 |  somebody made a
 |  comment on how to notate a field that is 18 long with 5
 |  decimal places.
 |
 |  I said it should look like this:
 |  Price     18,5  (18 total bytes with 5 that are to the
 |  right of the decimal)
 |
 |
 |  The other person said it should be like this:
 |  Price     13,5 (13 + 5 = 18)
 |
 |  Which is correct, or are both correct?
 |
 |  Aaron Bartell
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