Nice one Simon, as a resident Australian (and a lover of levity) I liked your link, which led me on to the data source. I took a pair of those 15 digit coordinates and pumped them into good old Google maps but sadly I was unable to zoom in far enough to see any chlorine atoms. :-(. Shame that.
On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 16:50, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote: > Please allow me a little levity, spinning off an earlier discussion of how > many digits a decimal number type needs to store. > > <https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2019-03-31.html> > > " Carbrook, for instance, is at -27.673862 153.25624 and at > -27.673861999297635 153.256240000388146. > > [...] those 15-place figures locate the suburb's latitude to the nearest > tenth of a nanometre, about half the diameter of a chlorine atom. " > > First, spot the '999' and '0000' suggesting a problem. Second wonder > whether anyone read the data. > > Apart from that, the article is complimentary about the format used for > making a lot of data easily searchable. So it's a nice example to use when > talking about care with data preparation. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- Regards, Michael.j.Falconer. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
