From: newtoorcl@yahoo.com   
      
   I am trying to get the utl_raw.cast_from_number function to pass data to   
   a 3rd party application.  I am kind of confused as to how it gets   
   converted into a binary format.  Are these hexadecimal values?  Why do   
   the results vary so much in their length?   
      
      
   100	C202   
   200	C203   
   300	C204   
   400	C205   
   500	C206   
   1000	C20B   
   10000	C302   
   100000	C30B   
   1.2	C10215   
      
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