Re: [sqlite] How to input a double num?

2009-10-29 Thread Igor Conom
You cannot store 212345678901234567890123456.988290112 using IEEE a 8 byte double precision. You cannot do this even with a 16 byte (long double - which for x86 architectures is actually 80-bit extended precision - only 64 bit for mantissa; is not the quadruple precision). If you care about

Re: [sqlite] Creating a spatial index for a large number of points- sorry for the text formating

2009-10-17 Thread Igor Conom
it, but you are entering wild territory. I'm a huge fan of SQLite, but I wouldn't use it for the job you described. John -Original Message- From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Igor Conom Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:10 AM T

Re: [sqlite] Creating a spatial index for a large number of points - sorry for the text formating

2009-10-17 Thread Igor Conom
Sorry for the formatting - it looked better when I sent it from Yahoo's web interface. - Original Message From: Igor Conom <igor..co...@yahoo.com> To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Sent: Sat, October 17, 2009 9:03:54 AM Subject: [sqlite] Creating a spatial index for a large number of

[sqlite] Creating a spatial index for a large number of points

2009-10-17 Thread Igor Conom
Hello everybody! I need to create a spatial index for a large number of points and I would really like to hear your comments. Thank you in advance for your time. There are some very large files containing scientific data, stored in a very simple format (by very large I mean things in the