Oracle - Differences between NUMBER and BINARY_FLOAT in Oracle

Differences between NUMBER and BINARY_FLOAT in Oracle

Q

What Are the Differences between NUMBER and BINARY_FLOAT in Oracle?

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A

The main differences between NUMBER and BINARY_FLOAT are:

NUMBER stores values as fixed-point numbers using 1 to 22 bytes.
BINARY_FLOAT stores values as single precision floating-point numbers.

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