June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 51m
English
FLOAT is a good data type when you need real number values with a greater range than INTEGER or NUMERIC data types support. Scientific applications are often cited as the best use of a FLOAT. Oracle uses the FLOAT data type to mean an exact scaled numeric, whereas the BINARY_FLOAT data type is an inexact numeric, using the IEEE 754 encoding.
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