Oracle PL/SQL - Number scientific notation

Introduction

Numeric literals cannot contain dollar signs or commas, but they can be written in scientific notation.

declare 
      v_real1_nr NUMBER:=$123456.00; -- INVALID 
      v_real2_nr NUMBER:=123,456.00; -- INVALID 
      v_real3_nr NUMBER:=5e10; -- VALID 
      v_real3_nr NUMBER:=5e-3; -- VALID 
begin 
      ... 

                   

Oracle supports scientific notation for numbers between 1.0 * 10^?130 and 1.0 * 10^126.

Or between 1E-130 and 1E * 126, where E stands for "times ten to the power of."

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