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Default Scale and Precision in number Data type
What is do we mean by scale and precision in number data type.
What it really means when we declare the following:

nm number(3,6)

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in NUMBER u store a decimal value. it can have 2 parameters like num(8,2)

8 tells that it can store upto 8 digits of value (excluding the decimal) and 2 represents number of digits after decimal like 123456.78
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