Things to look at:

For business applications, real numbers are always rounded, but are the
rules the same in every application?

What are you using to read these real numbers?
COBOL, Fortran, Cognos, Transact, Speedware, Query.

Also:
Are these IEEE Real, or HP Real, and does your database, and
application programs have them defined correctly.




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>>> Robert Perkins <[log in to unmask]> 01/13/03 10:11PM >>>
I'm having a problem with what I think should be a very simple thing,
reading and writing 8 byte real numbers.  I have two fields in one
data
table defined in IMAGE as R4 and defined in Dictionary as R(28,6,8).
When
I read existing values in this field they don't reflect the same values
as
shown by Query.  When I insert a record with known values into the
table I
don't see the values I set reflected in the data when view by Query.

If any person out there can give me some insight into the problem it
would
be greately appreciated.

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