/Free testing a numeric value and by mistake use a comma in the test

["Andy Hautamaki" <ahautamaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This was a bug in my program but I'm curious why I got the results I did.

Here is an example;

                                       
 D v_Number1       s              7  0 
 D v_Err                 s              1 

 v_Number1 = 500;

if v_Number1 >= 10,000; 
  v_Err = 'Y';          
else;                   
  v_Err = 'N';          
endif;                  

Why was v_Number1 treated as greater or equal to 10,000? I'm at V5R2. 

Thanks
Andy