Vi how to search for numbers [closed]

Question

I want to search for the occurrence of 100169200

I typed /100169200 but vi says Pattern not found

Edit

Since the question has been downvotes, I would like to make it clear that grep can find the number in the file, but vi does not.

Edit 2

For the sake of it, I download vim for windows, and it can find it. However vi in Solaris still does not work.

I'm sorry Rosdi, but the number you are looking for is in another castle.
Why the downvotes? Was the question not valid? As I said.. grep can find it, but vi doesn't.
What if you try to search for anything else with vi? Can you find it? Try searching for a word or number or definitely see with your own eyes while in vi. If that does not help, then you have some very strange problem. Oh, and about the downvotes: usually questions with only couple of lines in them tend to get downvotes easily. The more descriptive question, the easier to answer.
@Rosdi: The four votes to close as off-topic should give you a hint as to the downvotes.

womble · Answer 1 · 2011-08-05 04:58:48Z

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Then the number isn't in the file you searched.

answered Aug 5 '11 at 4:58

womble
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It is there when I grep it... I want to search in vi so that I can move back and forward. – Rosdi Aug 5 '11 at 5:08

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You can search in less as well... – SvenW Aug 5 '11 at 7:14

@SvenW thanks for the tip.. it works. vi still does not. – Rosdi Aug 5 '11 at 8:02

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closed as off topic by womble, Zoredache, ErikA, Shane Madden, Janne Pikkarainen Aug 5 '11 at 8:06