help with this simple DB script

[John Salerno]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> 	Out of curiosity, which SQL reference listed "number" as a data
> type?

I was taking the sqlcourse.com tutorial yesterday, and it shows it here: 
http://sqlcourse.com/create.html

All the interactive examples in the tutorial seem to work with number(). 
But after work today I think I will go pick up a copy of the MySQL 
Pocket Reference, just to have something to easily consult from now on.