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Author Topic: Ask Reuben 84 - Precision  (Read 4261 times)
Reuben B.
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« on: June 18, 2021, 05:44:15 am »

We have a new promotional video (https://vimeo.com/555734404/a72ceb5d53) on the front of our website that has some large numbers, but it reminded me of some extremely small numbers from a recent support case.  When Genero is evaluating expressions,  the datatype of an intermediate or resultant expression maybe an INTEGER or a DECIMAL(16), that is be accurate to 16 digits.  This can lead to a result you might not be expecting.  In this article I take the numbers from this interesting support case and explain how they can lead to an unexpected result.  I then look at some of the strategies you can adopt.

Read more at https://4js.com/ask-reuben/ig-84/

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