Charles,

Can you cast as B(16) ?

>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
>And when I multiply them the result looks like a float, But when I try to save the value into a view column, I get a numeric data overflow.
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>Trying to cast the numbers as B just gets them lopped off after about 4 decimals. ( I think this has something to do with 16bit vs 32 bit math, but since my brain runs on an i386sx chip, it is beyond me )
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>I'm sure this problem is nothing new to anyone who has tried it and I found this
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>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPFloatingPointDataType
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>on the wiki.
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>But I am trying to wrap my brain around how to employ conversions ( and which of the functions to use ) in pulling, manipulating and hopefully saving the data.
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>Really stuck on this one.
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>TIA