On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 09:26:10AM -0700, Jeff Anton wrote:
> The issue of significant (decimal) digits to and from floating point
> representation is a complex one.
>
> What 'significant' means may depend upon the intent.
True. I meant simply that Oracle TO_CHAR emits no more than 17 nonzero digits
for a BINARY_DOUBLE and no more than 9 nonzero digits for a BINARY_FLOAT.
> BTW: This is my first posting to this list. I should introduce myself.
> I'm Jeff Anton. I was the first Postgres project lead programmer working
> for Michael Stonebraker at U.C. Berkeley a very long time ago.
> The first version was never released. I've since worked for several db
> companies.
Welcome back.
Thanks,
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