Re: error update

Alexander Keremidarski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

leong wrote:
> I have a field in type of float(20,2),
> the value is 158059.45, i want to update to 158059.46,
> but it can't update.
> and there are some update have the same problem like,
> 158059.01 will become 158059.02
> 158059.04 will become 158059.05
> 158059.07 will become 158059.06
> 158059.10 will become 158059.09
> 158059.13 will become 158059.12
> 
> can you help me with this problem?

There is no problem. This is consequence of using floating point arithmetic where 
values are never precise. 0.1 for example can be represented as 0.99999999

Conisder using DECIMAL or use some rounding.

Best regards

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