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Noob Data Type Question...

Christopher Waddell — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:03:42 GMT

signed longword scale 0

That can handle 9 digits, right??

Thanx In Advance,
->Christopher

Re: Noob Data Type Question...

John Gillings — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:35:28 GMT

Christopher,
"signed longword scale 0" is really just a signed 32 bit integer. So the range is

-2147483648 to 2147483647

which covers all positive and negative 9 digit numbers.

Re: Noob Data Type Question...

Richard White_5 — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 04:45:02 GMT

Good Morning Christopher...

As Mr. Gillings pointed out, the "signed longword scale 0" can handle positive and negative approximately 2-billion "decimal numbers", which is into the tenth digit. Hopefully, your referral to "9 digits" is also in Decimal-Radix, and not "Hex-Radix", which is the default-radix for a "longword". Most utilities and languages running on OVMS use decimal for the default radix, so you should be covered here.

But, if you need 9-digit precision for hexadecimal computations, then you will need to used quadwords. Hope this helps..

Thanx,
whynot3k

Re: Noob Data Type Question...

Christopher Waddell — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:08:37 GMT

Thanx for your responses.

This number will not be used in any calculations it's an ID like an SSN.

It's just we're about to go over 999999.

I do appreciate your help.

->Christopher

Re: Noob Data Type Question...

Christopher Waddell — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:13:55 GMT

Ooooops!

That should be 99999999.

->C.

Re: Noob Data Type Question...

Antoniov. — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:11:00 GMT

Chris,
welcome to vms forum.

May I hint you assigning some points to fellows helped you?

Cheers
Antonio Vigliotti