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- We use the following terms below: The
- scale of a numeric is the
- count of decimal digits in the fractional part, to the right of
- the decimal point. The precision of a
- numeric is the total count of significant digits in
- the whole number, that is, the number of digits to both sides of
- the decimal point. So the number 23.5141 has a precision of 6
- and a scale of 4. Integers can be considered to have a scale of
- zero.
+ We use the following terms below: the
+ precision of a numeric
+ is the total count of significant digits in the whole number,
+ that is, the number of digits to both sides of the decimal point.
+ The scale of a numeric is the
+ count of decimal digits in the fractional part, to the right of the
+ decimal point. So the number 23.5141 has a precision of 6 and a
+ scale of 4. Integers can be considered to have a scale of zero.