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On 2/24/2013 6:13 PM, Tom Duffey wrote:
- The Java app on production shows "10.3884573" while the test app shows "10.3885"

'real' is single precision, which is only about 6 digits of decimal accuracy. if your java variables were double precision, you probably should have used double in postgres too.

0.1 decimal is a repeating fraction in binary.



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