Don't even get me started on the fallacies of using FLOATs. I personally think one should not use FLOATS unless one fully understands the (dis)advantages.
I once had an Oracle developer use FLOATS in an interim step to translate monetary values from a text source to a decimal destination. He was then wondering why his numebrs were always off of $0.01. took him a while to get the concept that the computer introduced imprecision into his process.
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