Re: How to transfer "2.2864849511949E+190" to a normal-human-readable number?

You are working with VERY large numbers here. I would have said that the number is as good as you'll get in terms of human readability unless you want to see nearly 200 zeroes on the screen. That said, I'm not sure how much use such large numbers will be to you, as when represented as floating point, the inaccuracies are phenomenal - you can't really expect to do any useful calculations with the numbers, and you're not too far away from banging into numeric overflows. It would be interesting to know what you are doing! Cheers -- Phil Driscoll Dial Solutions +44 (0)113 294 5112 http://www.dialsolutions.com http://www.dtonline.org