FYI a while ago I wrote a Java application using the logistic equation and big integers (it's still googleable).
It didn't take many iterations before differences in the 16th significant figure showed up. But a bit off-topic ;o) From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Igor Tandetnik Sent: 23 March 2011 17:25 To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: Re: [sqlite] storing big numbers into NUMERIC, DECIMAL columns On 3/23/2011 12:58 PM, Eugene N wrote: > I find the discussion very interesting. Apart from billing/accounting every > good (scientific) application soones or later is bound to requare > multiprecision library. Which scientific instrument can measure which physical quantity with an accuracy greater than 15 significant digits? By way of example, Planck constant is measured to about 8 significant digits. If you are using high precision to work with data measured with low accuracy, you are just fooling yourself - those least significant digits you labor so hard to preserve are completely bogus. Billing/accounting is best done in integers - say, in millionths of a dollar. -- Igor Tandetnik _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1498/3523 - Release Date: 03/22/11 _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
