# Decimal in elastic

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/decimal-in-elastic/170493>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 1, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/decimal-in-elastic/170493 "2019-03-01T12:23:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Suren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Suren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suren)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/decimal-in-elastic/170493/1 "2019-03-01T12:23:28Z")

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if i have float field in elastic and give value 9999999.9999999 it rounds it to 10000000 how can i put decimal value without rounding ?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/decimal-in-elastic/170493/2 "2019-03-01T12:39:31Z")

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I wonder if scaled float could help.  
But anyway I'd read this page. [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/number.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/number.html)

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**Author:** ![Suren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Suren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suren)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/decimal-in-elastic/170493/3 "2019-03-01T14:52:59Z")

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```
DELETE /test3

PUT /test3
{
  "mappings": {
    "wildcardtest3": {
      "properties": {
        "num": {
          "type": "scaled_float",
          "scaling_factor": 1000000
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

PUT test3/test3/2
    {
      "num": 999999999999.999999
    }` 

```

I tried this way by documentation expected result must be all 9s but it rounds number to 1000000000000

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/decimal-in-elastic/170493/4 "2019-03-01T16:46:27Z")

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If you are testing that in Kibana dev console that might be a Kibana "bug" (or behavior).

If you try to format:

```auto
PUT test/_doc/1
{
  "num": 999999999999.999999
}

```

You will see that Kibana transforms that number to:

```auto
PUT test/_doc/1
{
  "num": 1000000000000
}

```

I suspect that Kibana (or the browser) does that transformation before sending to elasticsearch.

Here is a workaround I found. Note that I'm using also here `double` instead of `float`.

```auto
DELETE /test
PUT /test
{
  "mappings": {
    "_doc": {
      "properties": {
        "num": {
          "type": "double"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

PUT test/_doc/1
{
  "num": "999999999999.999999"
}
GET test/_doc/1

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/decimal-in-elastic/170493/5 "2019-03-29T16:46:28Z")

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