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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.
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Msg-id 27129.1116615353@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.  ("Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org>)
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"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org> writes:
> It's not only useless, it's dangerous. As fas as I know, numeric
> _guarantees_ the result of a operation to be correct to the last digit.

Nonsense ... see division.  By your argument we should not implement
numeric / numeric.

            regards, tom lane

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