Oracle Tip: Use IEEE 754 FLOAT and DOUBLE datatypes in Oracle 10g

(Scott Stephens) Oracle stores numbers with the NUMBER datatype in an unusual format, with bytes in binary-coded decimal (where the byte hex value 0x99 represents 99 decimal). ANSI standard datatypes such as INTEGER, FLOAT, and DOUBLE are aliases for the NUMBER datatype, with extra restrictions: INT

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