-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Haworth wrote: > I have a column defined with a type of FLOAT, which I believe is > treated as REAL by SQLite. When selecting that column, I would like > it to be returned with a leading "$" sign and always have a decimal > point and two numbers after the decimal point.
It is a spectacularly bad idea to use floating point for currency. Numbers that look simple to us humans such as .01 and .10 are truncated recurring fractions in the binary representation used by the underlying hardware and will introduce errors in your calculations. This page helps show the details: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html Roger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr59wgACgkQmOOfHg372QRxWACfVpaAtdRTQL6DS/vuphnZi+wu ANYAnjnHZoOLPPfJWohRpPBYTUK8xM04 =Xbdt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
