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Re:Using floating-point numbers for money by nabla9 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @02:31PM (#22148118)
Large financial calculations where errors accumulate are more often than not done in database queries, not in the application software.

What is faster in Postgresql? Double floats and TRUNC after each operation or using NUMERIC(precision, scale)?

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Re:Using floating-point numbers for money by _wzsf on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:26AM (#22157467)
hey bro, where's your scholarly record of impactful publications?
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