Converting SQL FLOAT to SQL INT, lost data

Question

I\'m having some problems with converting some data stored in a FLOAT datatype to data stored in an INT datatype. The below example illustrates my problem:

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Answer 1

This is the classic (int)((0.1+0.7)*10) problem. Because floats have arbitrary precision some data loss when casting to int is possible even for very simple cases.

Use ROUND(weight * 1000000.0, 0) instead.