Gerry Snyder wrote: < I don't think anyone has pointed out that the "evil" is not floating point, it is the binary exponent.
Disregarding the “evil” appellation, the fundamental fact is that, with modern floating point hardware (implementing the IEEE-754 standard), only that subset of rational numbers having a denominator which is a power of 2 can be represented. If that is what you were trying to say, I would point out that it is not the representation of the exponent (binary or otherwise) that creates the mismatch with (many) rational numbers having a denominator which is a power of 10; it is that many such denominators cannot be represented at all when the interpretation of the exponent Ne is as 2 ^ Ne. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
