> needs 4 cycles instead of 10 (because the decimal point has
> the same meaning in base 10000 the last value is stored
> internally as short ints 1, 2030, 1234, 5000). This is the
> worst case and it still saved 60% of the innermost cycles!
Interesting. How do other Db's do it internally? Anyone know?
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