I think you're conflating two things here. There's the loss resulting from
using some operators, and loss involved in casting. Dividing an integer by
another integer to obtain an integer result can result in loss, but there's
no implicit casting there and no loss due to casting. Casting an
Hi,
I would like to try to clarify things a bit to help people to understand
the true complexity of the problem.
The *float *and *double *types are inexact numeric types. Not only at the
operation level.
If you insert 676543.21 in a *float* column and then read it, you will
realize that the
