Very good question, thank you Jason! I answered it correctly because I remembered there was a discussion some time in the past on this site about the read_only nuances of the model database. When the high quality question like this is also combined with Hugo's comments then it is truly enjoyable.

Until today I was not sure about how them 0.75 points get converted to 0 :hehe:. I thought before that it was because cast(0.75 as int) * @qod_points = 0, but today someone suggested that it is because of floor(0.75) * @qod_points = 0. I tested both in 10 mln iteration loop and both take about same time to execute. Then it hit me that none of the above is used because simple (3/4) * @qod_points just does it because of the implicit conversion to int takes care of it.

Oleg