On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 17:35:54 +0000
Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:

> On 17 Dec 2018, at 5:16pm, James K. Lowden <jklow...@schemamania.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > IEEE
> > double-precision floating point is accurate to within 15 decimal
> > digits.
> 
> First, the problem is not storage it's calculation.
> 
> Second, the thread was started because a floating point calculation
> in SQLite, exactly as it is run today, led to the following value:
> 
> 211496.25999999992
> 
> which is typical of such problems. 

What problem?  Rounded to the number of significant digits -- 2 decimal
places in the input -- the number is correct.  

--jkl
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