>>Hi all ---
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>>As you know, STR(nVar,nWidth,nDec) returns a string from a numeric value. What you probably didn't know is that nWidth cannot exceed 237. Anyone know why? I could understand 254 maybe, but 237 seems arbitrary.
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>When would you ever need to convert a 237 digit number? Or a 100 digit number for that matter?

I've wrote code around the 3.0e6 % inflation (monthly), and yet we went around with 18 digits, 21 in the worst case, but still coped somehow with the 15.5 significant digits.

Er.... 237 - could it have something to do with the maximal exponent in an IEEE number?