From: "Geo" 

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
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> Paraphrasing the manual:
> "There is no limit to the value for NUMERIC DIGITS (except the amount of
> memory available), but note that high precisions are likely to require a
> good deal of processing time."
>
> REXX does arithmetic the same way as you would do it with pencil and
paper,
> so there are no problems with floating point precision. Setting a
> sufficiently high NUMERIC DIGITS value will also prevent rounding errors.

Perfect, gives the capability and the choice to the user.

Geo.

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