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Re:Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) by BlueTemplar on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:14PM (#22371154)
Wait, there are finance applications that don't forbid floating point numbers ??
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Re:Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) by zimbu668 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:34PM (#22371301)
Fixed point arithmetic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_arithmetic
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Re:Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) by fowl2 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:58PM (#22371480)
I'd like you to meet my friend "Excel"...
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Re:Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) by BlueTemplar on Saturday February 22, 2020 @08:28AM (#22390870)
I mean for professional applications, not amateur stuff.
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Re:Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) by Dylan16807 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:17AM (#22421325)
Excel is used for very very expensive professional tasks.
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Re:Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) by Zarel on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @08:21PM (#22371947)
They're talking about decimal numbers as a different thing from floating point numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal#Decimal_computation

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