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Peter2150@xxxxxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 99-07-12 06:37:42 EDT, lwright@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
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> > Another thought: Note that the date above requires 8 digits. Single
> > precision is normally only 7 digits. If dates are read as numbers in Easy
> > Language, it will *NOT* be possible to make EL Y2k compliant, simply
> > because there are more digits in the YYYYMMDD format than can be
> > represented by single precision.
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> Don't think this is what single precision implies. First date could be an
> integer,
But it is not in Omega products, so I've been told. It's a single
precison real.
> but from what I remember of my programming days, we are talking
> about the number of decimal places. The root number can still be quite large
You remember wrong. Reals are stored in a binary equivalent of
0.1234567E+-x where x represents an integral power of ten. The
location of the decimal point makes absolutely no difference.
You get about 7 decimal digits of precision without regard to the
location of the decimal point.
Rod
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