Re: What is a BigDecimal ?

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From: OL
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 00:00

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Clint,

<<Big Decimal is intended mainly for use when you need an arbitrarily
large
number.
Say for scientific software that needs to be really accurate or for
calculating
very large prime numbers for encryption, dealling with astronomical
data,
etc.>>

Would you use that to map NUMERIC(10:4) e.g., DECIMAL or MONEY database
type.

Thanks.

Olivier.

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