sorry - DOUBLE - I don't use FLOAT at all - it's always in as a domain and I
use the DOMAIN - it's been too long since I've checked the underlying data
type - my bad
Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Ivan Prenosil
> Sent: Monday, 11 September 2006 8:18 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Using aritmetic operation with numeric
> fields in Firebird
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> > I was going to say - just use FLOAT and just cast your answers
> each time to
> > 15,5 if that's what you really want.
> > I'm an odd man out here. I use FLOAT for everyting including currency. I
> > just cast the result the way I need it. I've never had an issue
>
> Do you really meam FLOAT or DOUBLE PRECISION ?
> FLOAT has precision of 7 digits only.
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> Ivan
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