On 17 December 2014 14:21:40 CET, Patrick Sherrill <patr...@michael-clarke.com> 
wrote:
>We always store as strings to avoid rounding issues and then convert
>for calcs to whatever precision we need. 
>Pat...

So you'll still be affected by rounding errors during conversion and 
calculation,
two problems you'd avoid when using DECIMAL instead ...
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