Jose is correct. Maybe the topic Using decimal, float, and real Data in the BOL will help also.

-Mike

>Hello *.*
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>I´m using SQL 2000 and a table have a field type FLOAT, size: 8, precision: 53.
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>when I insert an INT, like: 55 I don´t have problems, but if I insert 55.1 then the value of my field shows 55.10000000000001
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>other: if I insert 55.51 it returns: 55.50999999999999
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>What´s wrong ?
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>Thank you all.