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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 Peter2150@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Don't think this is what single precision implies. First date could be an
> integer, 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
I am referring to the precision of the number. Single usually implies a
largest positive number of 3.402823 E38. The E38 allows the number to be
large, but the precision is still limited to 6+1 digits. After about 7
digits, the rest are all zeros.
Larry
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