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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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