William Robertson apparently said,on my timestamp of 29/11/2005 10:53 AM:
>
> Why on Earth would there be a predefined Oracle constant that denoted a
> very large number? How large did you have in mind anyway? I can't
> imagine a use for rpad('9',38,'9'), and in any case couldn't you use
> 1e39?
>
These things are important for the Cobol programming folks.
And any who follow similarly inspired coding techniques.
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Nuno Souto
in sunny Sydney, Australia
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Received on Tue Nov 29 2005 - 02:51:25 CST
