many maps are numbered on one side and have letters along the other.if the map is of a large area,and looking for a town,should that town be given a letter and number reference,we simply look in a little box that is at the intersection of that letter and number.
it is 26
two: 36 and 63
3.918208205 X 10^11 I think but I'm stupid so probably wrong
36*36*36*36*36*36
redefine the fields that contain low-values as alpha-numeric and move ' ' to them.
The printing press, and typesetting using lead blocks embossed with alpha-numeric characters.
You need to redefine the char field either in W/S or where it is defined in the input file. If you redefine a char field to numeric you should do a numeric test on the field before using it as numeric, otherwise your may abend with a S0C7. Yea, that's the hard way to do it above... This is one of the most common Easytrieve questions I encounter in the field. There is a macro that is shipped from CA called ALHPACON. You send it an alpha field and it returns a numeric. %ALHPACON ALPHA-FIELD NUMERIC-FIELD Ask your systems programmer to look for the shipped macros if it is not in your maclib.
Using Lat/Long coordinates.
Yes.
Yes.
What disadvantages are there to using parametric equations for numeric values?
26 lower case letters + 26 uppercase letters + 10 numerals = 62 characters 624 = 14776336