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NUMERIC
usage: NUMERIC {DIGITS | FUZZ} expression
or: NUMERIC FORM {SCIENTIFIC | ENGINEERING}
-sets options regarding numeric precision and format. Options are:

1)NUMERIC DIGITS expression
Specifies the number of digits of precision for arithmetic
calculations
2)NUMERIC FUZZ expression
Specifies the number of digits to be ignored in numeric comparison
operations. Must be less than the current DIGITS setting
3)NUMERIC FORM SCIENTIFIC
Specifies that numbers requiring exponential notation be expressed in
SCIENTIFIC notation; mantissa is between 1 and 10
4)NUMERIC FORM ENGINEERING
Normalizes exponential notation so that its exponent is a multiple of
three and the mantissa (if not 0) is between 1 and 1000