This is one of those cases where your reality was not successfully communicated in your message. Your original message, in the context in which it was presente

This is one of those cases where your reality was not successfully communicated in your message. Your original message, in the context in which it was presented, fairly clearly implied that you thought floating point and decimal are the same thing. That might not be the intent, or the reality, but it's what you managed to convey. Hence the thread.