PL> (although that question was alot harder). I decided to use borland's 
PL> function to convert a floating point number to a string and to find the 
PL> digit set from there but for some reason borland only converted at most 20 
PL> decimal places =(

PL> Does anyone know of this limitation?????

No, but since they probably use 4 bytes to store a float, and 8 bytes to
store a double, there is a finite number of significant decimal places.  20
is quite likely to be that limit.

BFN.  Paul.
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