Re: Re[2]: Really big numbers

["David Wright" <dwright2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Must be a government job.....

...maybe he is counting molecules of water in the Colorado River, or little
red and blue flecks in the cash supply....

....has to be something REALLY important!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton Gombkötö" <gombkoetoe@ASSOFT.COM>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:02 AM
Subject: Re[2]: Really big numbers


>
> >David Morris: > Thanks for the suggestion.  Until I read the Class
> >documentation I did
> > > not realize that BigDecimal can go up to 2,147,483,647 digits.  That
> > probably
> > > fits the problem better than another suggestion to use REX, which
works
> > > fine, but Java is a much more acceptable solution.  I was amazed at
how
> > > fast REX is so I won't rule it out.
>
> > >>2,147,483,647 digits
> >Dan Bale: > Um, is this a typo?
>
> It's a misunderstanding. Convert it to hex, and you'll receive 7FFFFFFF.
> That can't be a coincidence; so i think there was a mix-up with the
biggest
> possible contents of signed numeric variable occupying 4 bytes and the
> number of digits.
>
> And 170 digits is definitely way too much for every purpose i can imagine.
> I think i once read about the number of atoms in the universe and i think
> that number was smaller....
>
> I really want to know what you want to do, David....
>
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards
>
> Anton Gombkötö
>
> Avenum Technologie GmbH
> Wien - Mattsee - Stuttgart
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>
> Lest das Redbook / read the redbook "Who knew you could do that with
RPG?":
> http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245402.html
>
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