01.11.2012 14:26, Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > The obvious one (though not necessarily meaning the only one) is to have > even longer numerics and use them in cases when an int64 based > intermediate result is likely to overflow.
Way to nowhere. No matter how long new datatype is, 1/3 won't be precise. IMHO, division should produce double precision result. Always. -- WBR, SD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel