*** Мой вопрос: ***

Current Locale is: ^%SYS("LOCALE","CURRENT")="ruw8"
Collation table: Cyrillic2 or Cache standard (it doesn't mean much).

The following code provides the output as follows:

kill b
set a=1E30,b(+a)=1,b(+a_"1")=3,b(+a_"1a")="3a"
set a=3E30,b(+a)=2,b(+a_"1")=4,b(+a_"1a")="4a"
set b($c(2))="c2"
zwrite b

b(1000000000000000000000000000000)=1
b(3000000000000000000000000000000)=2
b("10000000000000000000000000000001")=3
b("30000000000000000000000000000001")=4
b($c(2))="c2"
b("10000000000000000000000000000001a")="3a"
b("30000000000000000000000000000001a")="4a"

while the expected output is:

b(1000000000000000000000000000000)=1
b(3000000000000000000000000000000)=2
b($C(2))="c2"
b("10000000000000000000000000000001")=3
b("10000000000000000000000000000001a")="3a"
b("30000000000000000000000000000001")=4
b("30000000000000000000000000000001a")="4a"

because as to ISO M Standard, in the first half of ASCII table there should be only 2 collation
ranges:
1) numbers (sorted numerically)
2) non-numbers (sorted alphabetically).

while in Cache one can find 3 collation ranges:
1) numbers (sorted numerically)
1*) pseudo numbers (sorted numerically)
2) non-numbers (sorted alphabetically).

Should be mentioned that this sample code provides correctly collated {glvn} in MSM, MiniM, GT.M.

*** И ответ разработчика ***

This is correct behavior. Anything which is entirely numeric will collate as if it was a number
even if it exceeds the capacity of the supported precision. SPJ932 contains a description of this.

If you create the global with string collation, then all entries are collated as strings.
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Цитата из изменения SPJ932: "In ANSI collation, any number (or string that is in canonic
numeric form) is collated numerically, before all non-numeric strings."