Athletic Record Database Decimal Precision Policy: Preserve Official Results Without Rounding Away Ties
An athletic record database decimal precision policy defines how your school stores, rounds, and displays numeric athletic results—times, distances, percentages, and scores—so that the official value from the source document is preserved exactly, tied results are never broken by rounding artifacts, and the display format your audience sees is a deliberate presentation choice rather than an accidental side effect of how the data was inserted. The short answer for data stewards: store results using an exact numeric type with enough decimal places to match the precision reported in the official source, record the measurement unit alongside the value, and separate the display-rounding decision from the storage decision.
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