Posted by Grant Foraker on July 08, 2004 at 07:52:44:
In Reply to: Re: Num function posted by Herb Walters on July 08, 2004 at 07:37:36:
From help on NUM ...
The intermediate result of the NUM function is stored in an accumulator with a fixed precision of 16.8. Digits that are more than eight places on either side of the decimal point are truncated. If the result is stored in a receiving numeric variable, the precision is adjusted to the defined precision of that variable.