Steve,
It's an old bug. The workaround is to round the
number to a precision of 38 before truncating it:
SQLWKS> select trunc(round(log(2,4),38)) from dual;
TRUNC(ROUN
1
HTH,
- Anita
- Steve Adams <steve.adams_at_ixora.com.au> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Oracle 8.1.6 appears to think that ... trunc(log(2,
> 4)) = 1.
>
> SQL> select trunc(log(2,4)) from dual;
>
> TRUNC(LOG(2,4))
> ---------------
> 1
>
> Does it reproduce on earlier versions?
>
> Regards,
> Steve Adams
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Received on Wed Jul 12 2000 - 01:17:51 CDT
