I'm still not convinced whether it's the behaviour causing my problem, but it does look like negative zero is another special case:
SQLite version 3.8.7.2 2014-11-18 20:57:56 Enter ".help" for usage hints. sqlite> create table datatable2 (doublevalue real); sqlite> insert into datatable2 values(-0.0); sqlite> select * from datatable2; 0.0 When inserting it through the API I get the same results, i.e. the signed bit looks like it gets stripped so technically the value retrieved is not the bitwise equivalent of what's written in even though it is the logical equivalent (-0.0 == 0.0). On Thu Jan 29 2015 at 10:13:55 AM Donald Shepherd <donald.sheph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reassurances. I have a case where differences in doubles > would explain what I'm seeing but I have no evidence that it is the case > (evidence compilation is still underway), hence my attempt to plumb the > depths of the list's knowledge to see if there was any known edge cases to > be aware of (other than the NaN one I'd already run into). :) > > On Thu Jan 29 2015 at 10:10:35 AM Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> > wrote: > >> >> On 28 Jan 2015, at 10:47pm, Donald Shepherd <donald.sheph...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > This is a bit of a speculative question related to a problem I'm having >> - >> > are there legal values of a C++ double that would get truncated when >> > written into and read from an SQLite database? >> >> In theory there should be no problem here. >> >> C doubles have 15 to 16 digits of precision. >> >> In SQLite databases, numbers which can't be stored as integers are stored >> as IEEE 754-2008 64-bit floating point numbers, sometimes known as >> 'binary64'. These give 15 to 17 digits of precision. >> >> My understanding is that it is possible to store every distinct C double >> value as a distinct binary64 value. >> >> If it's the conversion that worries you, you can read the SQLite source >> code to find the programming used to encode and decode numbers into this >> format. I am not competent to read that source code and tell you >> definitely that it works for all C double values. >> >> Simon. >> _______________________________________________ >> sqlite-users mailing list >> sqlite-users@sqlite.org >> http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users >> > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
