Storage of decimal

Posted in 1998

Manel Falc� — Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:32:04 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hi, Why the storage of decimal(14,4) is 8 bytes and decimal(14,3) or decimal(14,5) is 9 ?? ( 8 for even decimals and 9 for odd decimals, it seems) according to the storage calculation: 14/2+1 -> 8 bytes Ciao, Manel ----------------------------------------------------- SEMIC, S.A. Lleida (Catalunya) Spain ----------------------------------------------------- Informix version: Informix SE 5.07 / RDS 4.x Operating system: Unix SCO V 5.04