Subject Re: [firebird-support] Export from firebird
Author Milan Babuskov
Paul Mercea wrote:
> I have this situation.
> Table A with field F numeric (15,4) with value 0.0300 .
> I do export into script or file and the value for this field is
> 0.029999999999999999 .
> Why?????
> This difference is from firebird or from utilities i use???

It would be good if you could tell us which tools you use?

For example, FBExport uses IBPP library which doesn't support the idea of
fixed number of decimal places, and it uses double for everything. Double and
float are not precise, and thus the error.

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Milan Babuskov