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Database Administration (MOSC)

How Oracle 11gR2 stores calculations

Aug 29, 2014 1:53PM edited Sep 6, 2014 5:00AM in Database Administration (MOSC) 8 commentsAnswered

We have an app that calculates 225 x .0023 which is .5175.

Oracle stores the result in the database as 0.517499999999999991256993681076892244163.

Any idea why ?

Jeff

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