Re: LONG, LONG math - aka 64bit math....

["Alexei Pytel" <pytel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

MI does not have BIN(64) type, but you are talking about old MI. ILE does
not use old MI.
New MI supports 64-bit integers.

    Alexei Pytel

"The better is the worst enemy of the good"




                                                                                
              
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From: Don <dr2@cssas400.com>
> Dumb question:
>
> I told that in effect we didn't have 64bit math ops on this machine until
> v4r5/v5r1.  This is to say that "long long" variables didn't exist until
> they finally wokeup and got serious about terabyte space and gave us
64bit
> math....
>
> Can anyone confirm this for me?

dumb answer:
MI only had BIN(2) and BIN(4) (i.e. 16-bit and 32-bit) binary variables
at least through v4r5; don't know about v5R1, but I doubt it.
Packed and zoned variables go to 31 digits (much beyond 64-bit).
Float has always had FLT(4) (32-bit) and FLT(8) (64-bit), but
since floats are IEEE standard, that's no news.
Other languages may vary.
But this is the MI list, right?


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