>I am hoping some of the serious math wonks will take pity on an old man who still finds long division challenging.
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>I have SQL database tables that make heavy use of floating point numbers.
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>In my remote view, I am pulling half a dozen of those numbers. The remote view defines them as data type 'B' ( of which I have not previous experience)
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>I need to multiply those number together, then put the result in a field I created as part of the remote view ( casting a 0 as float )
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>But in the watch window these values all show up as N , even though the values can look like 140333030.002033021000

One key point is that variables don't have the same range of data types as fields. So if you copy a float or double to a variable, Locals and Watch will show it as N.

Tamar