Infinity in single or double precision data types

Josep Esquirol

The question is simple, is there any "infinity" (and minus infinity) value in the data types used by the numeric InfoCubes? I couldn't find any, but I'm guessing there could be one, as in most floating point arithmetic implementations (IEEE 754 - Wikipedia ). 

I can use a workaround in the particular case I'm working, but this would simplify things. For example, when working with intervals like (20,40), one can save them with two numbers even when some of them are "up to" or "from x to", that is: (-infty,3) or (100, infty), and test if a number is in the interval with the same action (cause x<infty is always true, etc). 

 

Thank you in advance,

 

Josep

Alexander Kappes

Dear Josep Esquirol,

 

find attached a link to our manual. Numeric data types 

 

You can find the limits of the Cube types inside.

 

Hope this is the information you need.

 

regards

 

Alexander Kappes