Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 07:37:49PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> So the product I fancifully mentioned would weigh in somewhere around >> 10^300, and thus be *well* within the capability of even the proposed >> restricted numeric format. > I think numbers much bigger than that are only useful for theoretical > mathemeticians. There are practical applications, eg, 1024-bit keys are fairly common objects in cryptography these days, and that equates to about 10^308. I don't really foresee anyone trying to run crypto algorithms with SQL NUMERIC arithmetic, though ... regards, tom lane
