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tmoran@acm.org wrote:

...snip...

>>To deal with these kinds of issues, INFORMIX
>>and Oracle (for example) do supply businesses with Decimal
>>
>   Did you check http://www.chez.com/bignumber


Yep: "It allows computations on big integers, signed or unsigned, 

and on big fractions." So what this says is integers and

rational computations only.

Warren.