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I think that the author implicitly relies on the unstated assumption that for business related databases the vast majority of non-integer data is money (which i

I think that the author implicitly relies on the unstated assumption that for business related databases the vast majority of non-integer data is money (which is quite well served by fixed point arithmetic with limited precision) and any other measurements are quite rare. Often it is a reasonable assumption, but not always, so if the author was explicit about this, that would preempt this discussion

josephg 3y ago
> I think that the author implicitly relies on the unstated assumption that for business related databases the vast majority of non-integer data is money That would certainly result in a much shorter article. "Hey, databases deal with money all the time. They should have a fixedpoint integer type for money values. Floats are a bad choice". If thats all they wanted to say, I wish they just said that.