The DOUBLE PRECISION data type provides 8-byte storage for numbers using IEEE floating-point notation.
or, alternately
DOUBLE can be used synonymously with DOUBLE PRECISION.
DOUBLE value ranges:
These limits are different from the
An exception is thrown when any double value is calculated or entered that is outside of these value ranges. Arithmetic operations do not round their resulting values to zero. If the values are too small, you will receive an exception.
Numeric floating point constants are
limited to a length of 30 characters.
java.lang.Double
DOUBLE
When
mixed with other data types in expressions, the resulting data type follows
the rules shown in
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also