Notation question -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Notation question
From: "Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:02:15 -0500
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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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