# Data Formats in Natural

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/data-formats-in-natural/78704>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [August 7, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/data-formats-in-natural/78704 "2008-08-07T19:00:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/data-formats-in-natural/78704/1 "2008-08-07T19:00:27Z")

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Hi All,

I have 2 questions about floating and packed data formats in natural :

```
 1. Here We generally use packed(P) and numeric(N) formats to define numeric digits with decimal point that is floating point. But when natural has Floating point format(F), why cannot we use F format?

 2. In my program i define a field with P10. Then inside the program i will move value of length 7 bytes to field. So internally what will be the result i mean to say how many bytes it will store? Is it N/2 +1 ?

```

Thanks,  
Rohan.

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/data-formats-in-natural/78704/2 "2021-04-02T14:50:43Z")

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