Answer Posted / vampire
comp has boundaries
01-04 halfword
05-09 fullword
10-18 doubleword
comp is always fast compare to comp3
comp storage is only binary
only using for small data
comp-3 is takes like this
(n+1)/2
it is much powerful than comp when handling huge data
storage is binary and packed decimal
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