Hi,

Oops - totally true... I usually forget about IB < 6 :)

Martijn Tonies
InterBase Workbench - the developer tool for InterBase and Firebird
http://www.interbaseworkbench.com

--- In ib-support@y..., "Martijn Tonies" <martijn@b...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> InterBase isn't lying to you - it's returning FLOATING POINT values.
>
> Floating point values aren't precise, never, not in any language -
if
> you want exact numerics, use NUMERIC(15, 2) or so as the datatype.
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Martijn, you forgot to say "and FB/IB6 dialect 3 instead of IB5.6"
:) Since both Numeric and Decimal with precision greater than 9 are
stored as floating point types, real data will be stored accordingly
this underlying types and can cause some headache on usage in
expressions and aggregates gathering.

Best regards, Alexander V.Nevsky.