----- "Sim Zacks" <sim@compulab.co.il> wrote:
> >> According to the documentation, numeric is stored without any
> leading
> >> or trailing zeros.
> >>
> >
> > That says *stored*; it doesn't say *displayed*.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
> If it displays them, it has to know they exist. That means it stores
> it
> somewhere.
> > The part of the above that you need to look at is where it says it
> does not
> > store 'any extra leading or trailing zeroes'. In your case you
> entered the
> > value with three trailing zeroes which are taken to be significant
> (see Toms
> > reply also). If you had inserted just 15 you would have gotten back
> 15.
> >
> I guess that's a matter of interpretation. To me zeros after a
> decimal
> point without anything else after them are extra.
See below for an explanation of why the above statement is incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures
Adrian Klaver
aklaver@comcast.net