>>Fabio,
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>>As soon as you get that Base10 computer invented let us all know and we'll be able to stop using these Base2 computers that suffer such horrible numeric representation errors that make them totally useless.
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>As always I have to forgive you because you don't know what you say.
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>N(9,6) is a base10 value.

Which is exactly what Davis also wrote. Am I missing something here, or what? Please, Fabio, don't be so damn arrogant, I am fully convinced that David knows exactly what he is talking about.

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>>But wait, your Base10 computer won't be able to store irrational numbers or numbers like pi and e accurately enough to suit you so this just all falls into the same futile bucket as all your other floating point error reports...
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>>>this is not a bug, but a VFP feature by design