-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:09:02PM +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
[...] > In fact, as I only recently found out, one of the design goals of IEEE > floats was specifically that they sort lexicographically and use every > bit pattern. So you can alwys get the "next" float by just > incrementing your float as an 64-bit integer. Yes that raises your > value by a different amount, and it's still useful. Didn't know that -- thanks :-) (and as Andrew Dunstan pointed out off-list: I was wrong with my bold assertion that one can squeeze infinitely many (arbitrary length) strings between two given. This is not always the case). Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLJ5i+Bcgs9XrR2kYRAqtUAJ0VHeUd7q/+Xr9H+Clbr2E0HVV3mgCdFXZM /EPDk1B+M2uP6/Lqr50Rv4k= =XICC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
