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Is it REAL?
I encounter too many databases in which numeric columns are defined as REAL or FLOAT. These data types are approximate, meaning they can only represent values approximately. They are meant to represent very large or very small numbers, and they should be used in databases where a very wide range of values should be expressed, such as scientific systems. In most cases, when we need to represent numbers, we actually need exact numbers, such as 15.873 or 98.2. Such numbers can r
