Re: Big numbers

marc wrote:
On 13 jan, 19:41, "J. J. Farrell" <j...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
marc wrote:

If you don't get it like that, you'll obviously need to explain in
exactly what format you do get it before anyone can advise you on
how to convert it to a string.

As I said, it's stored as Decimal in the database.
33748440199875750.25 is the right representation in the database...

The question is not (primarily) how it is stored in the DB, but how you get it out of that DB.

Bye, Jojo

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