>>Your maximum positive value with 2 BINTOC calls would be 2 ^ 31 - 1 on both sides of the decimals point or (drum roll, if you don't mind) 2,147,483,647.2147483647. I'd hope that'd be enough.:-)
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>LoL... as always I stand humbled Geo. Next time I'll listen to your first response regardless how messy it looks ;)

Quit it, Rox! At least sit (rhg). Yeah, it is a bit messy, but, if the table is large, seven bytes per record can save a good deal of space.