On 24 December 2010 03:59, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
> I'm not sure Float has a proper use case at all. :)

Consider  table containing the masses of objects.  Columns description
and mass (kg), with the following records
apple, 0.2
earth, 5.9742E24
sun, 1.98892E30
super massive black hole, 1.0E39

What column type would be appropriate for storing the mass?

Colin

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