Re: Oracle internal NUMBER type

From: Jaroslaw Gramacki <J.Gramacki_at_iie.pz.zgora.pl>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:51:12 GMT
Message-ID: <3dc78493.3776520@news.ict.pwr.wroc.pl>

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:23:29 +0300, "Vladimir M. Zakharychev" <bob_at_dpsp-yes.com> wrote:

>Look it up in Oracle SQL Reference - you will find everything you need to
>know about all Oracle data types there. For PL/SQL data types, read
>PL/SQL Developer's Guide. You can find both books searchable online at
>http://tahiti.oracle.com - OTN registration is required (registration is free
>and they do not spam.)
>

Well, I had in mind something more detailed like e.g ANSI/IEEE 754 - 198 standard for binary floating-point arithemtic norm description. With in-depth format description, operations, exceptions, etc. Oracle does not use math-coproc. (with build-in FPU) to perform math calculations but implements a whole arithmetic by itself.

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>"Jaroslaw Gramacki" <J.Gramacki_at_iie.pz.zgora.pl> wrote in message
>news:3dc77891.702570_at_news.ict.pwr.wroc.pl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does anybody know any good and reliable information (e.g. a good web
>> page, a link, etc.) concerning the details of the internal oracle
>> datatype NUMBER. It stores data in a decimal way (not binary
>> floating-point number) in base-100 format.
>>
>> Best wishes to the oracle world,
>> Jarek
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> Jaroslaw Gramacki, Ph.D.
>> University of Zielona Gora, Poland
>> e-mail : J.Gramacki_at_iie.uz.zgora.pl
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>

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Jaroslaw Gramacki, Ph.D.
University of Zielona Gora, Poland

e-mail  : J.Gramacki_at_iie.uz.zgora.pl
phone   : (+48 68) 3282536
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