numeric field type same as float type??

mhueb...@iac.net (Mark Huebner)

Delphi Developer

Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

numeric field type same as float type??

In Delphi 3, the help for Database Desktop defines a numeric (N) field
type as -10^307 ... 10^308 with 15 significant digits. Is this
correct?? Isn't this field type the same as a TFloatField which has a
range of +/- 5.0 x 10^-324 ... 1.7 x 10^308?

Mark Huebner
mhueb...@iac.net

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