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RE: floating point and Sun T2000

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Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 18:31:20 +0200
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Kevin

>>>>I'm testing a Sun T2000 Solaris 10 Oracle 10g and have read
>>>>that if floating point calculations are used then the box is
>>>>essentially a 1 cpu box.
>
>the database server does not do floating point
>calculations

My understanding is that at least BINARY_FLOAT and BINARY_DOUBLE datatypes do floating point computation.

Regards,
Chris

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