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  3. February 2004

Re: int vs binary questions

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Hans Boldt wrote:

> Note that any operations with binary decimal numeric type involve an
> implicit conversion to packed decimal numeric type. That will slow down
> any operation involving binary.

Is this only with binary type, or does this also happen with integer type?
And, what is the difference between integer and binary?  AFAIK, both int
and binary store numbers as a straightforward binary representation, i.e.
0001 for 1 or 0101 for 5 (of course with leading zeros to fill up 4
bytes).

James Rich

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