Beware of floats
I am currently volunteering as an instructor to teach young women about Data & SQL. Right in the first module we covered core data types as shown here: For this blog post I’d like to write about FLOAT and DECIMAL and why in most cases I think that DECIMAL is a much better choice. Approximate values According to the MySQL documentation float (and double) represent approximate numeric data values This is the reason where the general problem comes from. But…
