Fixed #14403 -- Provided some extra resources on the difference between FloatField and DecimalField in the model field reference. Thanks to typeshige for the report and trebor74hr and dmedvinsky for the draft patch.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@15090 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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Gabriel Hurley 2010-12-29 00:03:02 +00:00
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The admin represents this as an ``<input type="text">`` (a single-line input). The admin represents this as an ``<input type="text">`` (a single-line input).
.. note::
For more information about the differences between the
:class:`FloatField` and :class:`DecimalField` classes, please
see :ref:`FloatField vs. DecimalField <floatfield_vs_decimalfield>`.
``EmailField`` ``EmailField``
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@ -661,6 +667,20 @@ A floating-point number represented in Python by a ``float`` instance.
The admin represents this as an ``<input type="text">`` (a single-line input). The admin represents this as an ``<input type="text">`` (a single-line input).
.. _floatfield_vs_decimalfield:
.. admonition:: ``FloatField`` vs. ``DecimalField``
The :class:`FloatField` class is sometimes mixed up with the
:class:`DecimalField` class. Although they both represent real numbers, they
represent those numbers differently. ``FloatField`` uses Python's ``float``
type internally, while ``DecimalField`` uses Python's ``Decimal`` type. For
information on the difference between the two, see Python's documentation on
`Decimal fixed point and floating point arithmetic`_.
.. _Decimal fixed point and floating point arithmetic: http://docs.python.org/library/decimal.html
``ImageField`` ``ImageField``
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