Standards and compliance  Understanding approximate numeric datatypes

Chapter 1: System and User-Defined Datatypes

Approximate numeric datatypes

Use the approximate numeric types, float, double precision, and real, for numeric data that can tolerate rounding. The approximate numeric types are especially suited to data that covers a wide range of values. They support all aggregate functions and all arithmetic operations except modulo.





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