Re: BIGINT support?

From I posted my reply I knew some wacko to come up with such irrelevant argument.

4 Kgram = 4000 Grams. True.

1. This newsgroup is comp.*, not alt.bakery.*.
2. How do you think programmers reading the URL would interpret 4K ?? The are not bakers!
3. The URL said just 4K. not 4K characters...
4. It would be no effort to change 4K to just 4000 to remove any doubt. That was the meaning of my post.
5. If K = 1024 is "misuse" to you....go back to your bakery.
   • Kenneth Koenraadt

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:13:36 +0100, Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote:

>Kenneth wrote:
>
>> I checked your URL which stated that a VARCHAR2 column can hold 4K of
>> chars. Not true, 4K = 4 * 1024 = 4096. A VARCHAR2 can only hold 4000
>> chars.
>>
>> - Kenneth Koenraadt
>When we start nitpicking:
>since when stands K for 1024? 4K gram is 4,000 gram.
>4K characters = 4000 characters.
>
>Yeah - I know, 4KB/sec is 4096 Bytes per second. Only
>since computer age is K misused, dude.
>--
>
>Regards,
>Frank van Bortel
>
Received on Sat Mar 20 2004 - 02:57:51 CST