Re: [HACKERS] NUMERIC and Perl

From: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Jan Wieck <jwieck(at)debis(dot)com>
Cc: kar(at)webline(dot)dk, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] NUMERIC and Perl
Date: 1999-03-03 04:14:25
Message-ID: 36DCB721.C6D4E271@alumni.caltech.edu
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> Should be a string - or is Perl capable of handling numbers
> with hundreds of digits before and after the decimal point
> (ALL SIGNIFICANT)?

golem> perl -e '{printf("%30.18f\n", 1234567890.2345678901234567890)}'
1234567890.234567880630493164

Looks like not, unless I'm forgetting a feature...

- Tom

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