MySQL: preferred column type for (product) prices?

Question

In MySQL, what is the preferred column type for storing a product\'s price (or currencies in general)? Google learned me DECIMAL of FLOAT is often used, but I wonder which one i

Answer 1

Decimal is wrong because if you want to set the price 12.99 decimal turn it to 13.00.So this is wrong but if you use float you can save it as 12.99. So the correct answer is float and varchar.