</I
></TT
>)</TT
> was taken to mean
      so many <SPAN
CLASS="emphasis"
><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>decimal</I
></SPAN
> digits.  This has been corrected to match the SQL
      standard, which specifies that the precision is measured in binary
      digits.  The assumption that <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>real</TT
> and
      <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>double precision</TT
> have exactly 24 and 53 bits in the
      mantissa respectively is correct for IEEE-standard floating point
      implementations.  On non-IEEE platforms it m