Re: interesting floating point problem with oracle

At 11:35 AM 9/25/2001, Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130) wrote:

>ran across something interesting on metalink.
>
>from
>Doc ID: Note:1012478.7
>
>Problem Description
>===================
>
>Doing floating point arithmetic involving multiplication and division
>causes unpredictable results. For example, if you issue the following
>select statement from a SQL*Plus session, the result would be "~" which
>is incorrect.
>
>select 62.323/62.323 from dual;

hmmmmm... i get 1 on 7.3.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6 and 8.1.7.

guess i must be lucky, huh?;-)

maybe that's why i survive the 300 person lay off yesterday.;-)

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