Forgot to mention that I sees the issue as fundamentally distinct from the Mandelbrot example in the SQLite docs: it uses a construct -outlined in procedural statements- like:
For x in xRange For y in yRange compute something like f(x, y) -- here, y is independant of x Next y Next x Put in table form: build a table for varying x's build a table for varying y's compute f(x, y) for the cross join My issue is that yRange depends on the current x for its starting point, so in SQL WITH parlance, I can't have a table x built before entering the computation. It must be simple but I lamentably fail to see the light.