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Decimal floating point number
Numeric data type for saving (decimally) numbers with mantissa and exponent or a number saved in a similar way. The associated
built-in ABAP types
are decfloat16 and
decfloat34. The internal representation follows the standard IEEE-754-2008, with
decimal numbers with 16 or 34
places being represented precisely in the mantissa. A decimal floating point number has an additional
scaling property.