... will be reproducible across platforms. When the result of a computation is NaN, all platforms will produce a value for which IS NAN is true. However, all platforms do not have to use the same ... seconds. For example, an application that must decide which of two events occurred first might use TIMESTAMP. An application that needs to specify the time for a job to execute might use DATE. ... nearest binary place, so they are not satisfactory for applications that require decimal rounding. Use the Oracle NUMBER datatype for applications where decimal rounding is required on floating-point...