Hi all,
>> Floating point data types are stored in an IEEE 754 binary format that
>> comprises sign, exponent and mantissa. Precision is dynamic,
>> corresponding to the physical storage format of the value, which may
>> be up to 4 bytes for the FLOAT type and up to 8 bytes for DOUBLE
>> PRECISIO
Hi Helen,
yes i did.
Martin
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Von: Helen Borrie [mailto:hele...@iinet.net.au]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. August 2016 09:26
An: Chatter regarding Firebird documentation
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types
Hello
n: Chatter regarding Firebird documentation
> Betreff: Re: [Firebird-docs] Scale of number and precision on floating data
> types
> 11.08.2016 06:38, Helen Borrie wrote:
>>
>> Floating point data types are stored in an IEEE 754 binary format that
>> comprises sig
The wording is OK. I will use it.
Martin
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Von: Dmitry Yemanov [mailto:firebi...@yandex.ru]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. August 2016 07:19
An: Chatter regarding Firebird documentation
Betreff: Re: [Firebird-docs] Scale of number and precision on floating data
types
11.08.2016 06:38, Helen Borrie wrote:
>
> Floating point data types are stored in an IEEE 754 binary format that
> comprises sign, exponent and mantissa. Precision is dynamic,
> corresponding to the physical storage format of the value, which may
> be up to 4 bytes for the FLOAT type and up to 8 b
Hello Dmitry,
Thursday, August 11, 2016, 9:42:48 AM, you wrote:
> Nope, floating point numbers are stored completely different to the
> fixed point numbers. FLOAT is single-precision format which occupies 4
> bytes. DOUBLE is double-precision format which occupies 8 bytes. But
> they have no re
10.08.2016 23:35, Helen Borrie wrote:
>
>> I hang on a text part in fblangref25-datatypes.xml ->
>> fblangref25-datatypes-floattypes:
>> Floating-point data types are examples of data stored in the DBMS with the
>> precision matching the scale of the number.
>
>> What is the scale of number? Plea
No, that is not how floating point works. The storage is different from
integers or bigint, as it is, the text makes no sense at all.
Mark
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Onderwerp: [Firebird-docs] Scale of number and precisi
Hello ,
Wednesday, August 10, 2016, 9:20:50 PM, Martin Koeditz wrote:
> I hang on a text part in fblangref25-datatypes.xml ->
> fblangref25-datatypes-floattypes:
> Floating-point data types are examples of data stored in the DBMS with the
> precision matching the scale of the number.
> What i
