Rob, On Thu, 2020-05-21 at 19:39 -0600, Rob Sargent wrote: > I guess I don't understand what is not "good" about extra digits after > > the decimal point?
Very simple, but frequent use case: Loading data from a Spreadsheet file into a database. In this case, the read value is a FLOAT which needs to be forced into DECIMAL(?,?). And this can be a real nightmare, because most of the End Users just copy/paste the content from other data sources into the Spreadsheet without thinking about it. Also, certain data, like currency amounts or interest rates permit only a fixed number of digits. Spreadsheets actually do lack a BigDecimal data type. Cheers
