"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
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> * For anybody wondering what a floating-point number is, the short answer is
> that they use various mathematical "tricks" to allow representation of
> values of an almost infinite range with only a small number of digits.  The
> "tricks" used in essence reduce precision to ten to 15 leftmost digits of
> any number.  Of course, all this is a very simplified explanation!

http://tinyurl.com/272fa

This is a faq wot I wrote on floats - feel free to point out any obvious errors.
(I was inspired to write it when I found a customer storing social-security
numbers as floats!)

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