Hello BillyWilly,
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No big deal - I'll just do some casting during division to get the 12 precision I want - just found this to be interesting.
it is interesting!
For further information on decimal data type see
http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/std_public/description/busarch/854-1987_desc.html or http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/decbits.html .
Hope this will feed your appetite for information 
Cheers,
Frank
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