> I disagree.  I have never heard of a simple data type that
> doesn't allow
> the value of 1, 2 ...  What the manuals are stating is that
> if you will
> need from 5 to 9 decimal digits, then it will take a 32 bit
> binary field to
> store that range of numbers (J2).  That doesn't exclude the
> values from 1
> to 4 digits.

Uhh...that's what he said.

It seems like it would be *so* much simpler if these manuals treated their
readers like adults and talked about maximum values like 65535, 32767,
4294967295, etc. Especially since, as the values show, it is perfectly
feasible to store a value with (gasp!) *ten* decimal digits into a 32-bit
field, or 5 decimal digits into a 16-bit field.

Steve