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Hi Scott!

> The result of the printf is 1152921504606847000 as it was in your example,
> but the result of the DSPLY is 1152921504606846980
>
> Which is very interesting, don't you think?

Yes indeed.  It looks as if Simon's conjecture is on the money.  Some sort
of conversion/rounding error between FLOAT8 and packed.  It looks like C
will by default only display the 16 digits that double is supposed to hold
while the RPG conversion from float to packed manages to extract that little
something extra!  :-)

It has been an interesting thread.
  --buck




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