A.06.30 Release Notes
Precision of REAL numbers has been enhanced from 12 to 14 digits.
To maintain full backwards compatibility numbers are rounded to 12
digits when written to a DATA file and program constants are
limited to 12 digits.
Eloquence internally uses decimal arithmetic, calculations are
performed with 16-18 digits precision. Results are rounded to
14 digits for REAL variables and 6 digits for SHORT variables.
With previous Eloquence versions REAL variables were rounded
to 12 digits.
Inside the database, REAL and SHORT values are converted to IEEE floating
point values (double and float format).
For blocked DATA files (DATA files with a record length) Eloquence
uses the proprietary BCD format used by the HP260 which is required
for backwards compatibility. For sequential DATA files the IEEE
floating point format (double) is used.
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