Re:interesting floating point problem with oracle

From: <dgoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:08:14 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00397DD5.20010925080032@fatcity.com>

Just tried that against three of my DB's, every time it came back with 1.

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Author: "Adams; Matthew (GEA; 088130)" <MATT.ADAMS_at_APPL.GE.COM>
Date:       9/25/2001 7:35 AM

ran across something interesting on metalink.

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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;

Matt Adams - GE Appliances - matt.adams_at_appl.ge.com "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."

Larry Wall (creator of Perl)

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ran across something interesting on metalink.

 

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Problem Description
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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;


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 Matt Adams - GE Appliances - matt.adams_at_appl.ge.com
 "Doing linear scans over an associative array is

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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.&quot;</FONT>

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