Re: Reduce NUMERIC size by 2 bytes, reduce max length to 508 digits

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 07:37:49PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> So the product I fancifully mentioned would weigh in somewhere around
> 10^300, and thus be *well* within the capability of even the proposed
> restricted numeric format.

I think numbers much bigger than that are only useful for theoretical
mathemeticians. I also think that most of the people dealing with such
numbers probably refer to the formula used to create them since
manipulating that is likely to be faster than reading all the digits of
such a large numbers.

Have a nice day,
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