RE: Character to Numeric

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ya Hans, as soon as IBM fixes the one that I copied this from.  Better get
crackin. 

PS - I never said Barbara was wrong.  

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 7:46 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Character to Numeric
> 
> 
> 
> Brad wrote:
> 
> Sorry Brad, Barbara's right.  (She usually is!)  Just feed 
> your procedure
> a large value, say '123456789123456789.123456789'.  I just 
> tried it out
> and it gives a result of 123456789123456784.000000000!  
> That's what using
> floating point can do to you.
> 
> Bummer to get news like this on a friday, isn't it?  Anyways, 
> I'm sure we
> can expect to find the fixed version of the procedure on your web page
> later today, right?
> 
> 
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
> 
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