Re: [Firebird-docs] Scale of number and precision on floating data types

[Dmitry Y. <fir...@ya...>]

11.08.2016 06:38, Helen Borrie wrote:
>
> Floating point data types are stored in an IEEE 754 binary format that
> comprises sign, exponent and mantissa.  Precision is dynamic,
> corresponding to the physical storage format of the value, which may
> be up to 4 bytes for the FLOAT type and up to 8 bytes for DOUBLE
> PRECISION.

It's exactly either 4 or 8 bytes, not "up to".


Dmitry