On 06/03/2012 16:37, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 06.03.2012 20:31, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: >> So, add a new datatype NUMBER(x, y) who does BCD arithmetics like it's >> done in Oracle. > What this data type will change? What will be result of 1/3 for this data > type? If 0, > it won't be different from DECIMAL. If 0.(3), how much "3" will it contain? > It will be 0.333... (up to the maximum NUMBER scale precision).
The thing is that for operations like addition, subtraction, NUMBER will work like NUMERIC (i.e., it's results are more precise than DOUBLE). Adriano ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
