Signatures on Fillable Forms

I've created a fillable form in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional.
When the form is being completed, how does the person who is
completing the form sign the form? What are the options,
please?

Empty or null fields are assumed to be character strings and not number strings.
The "+" operator in JavaScript is both the addition operative and the concatenation operative. If there is any string value, the computation with the "+" operator becomes a concatenation of strings.
If you are using JavaScript you have to force the empty values to the number format using the "Number" constrictor, the "+" prefix or multipling the field by 1.
event.value = Number(this.getField("Text1").value) + (+this.getField("Text2").value) + (1 * this.getField("Text3").value);
The first 2 options for calculations have the above or a similar process to force null strings to zero or to ignore text values.

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Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:43:01 -0700
To: Michele DeFilippo <[email protected]>
Subject: Defining fillable form fields in IDCS4
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