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  3. February 2004

Re: Strange result with exponents...

Hi Hans,

> What's happening here? It's simple, really. The exponentiation operator
> returns a float numeric value. When you're dealing with double precision
> IEEE float numeric, you're limited to about 16 digits of precision. Any
> digits past the 16th or 17th cannot be trusted. Period. (Note in the values
> listed that the difference shows up in the 18th digit and beyond.)

Okay, that makes sense... but, then why did it work in V5R1?  And V4R5?
Why does it use 8F if all of the operands are 30p?
Is it documented somewhere than exponentiation always outputs float, no
matter what your operands are?

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