Re: [sqlite] bignums and the numerical tower

2005-11-03 Thread John Stanton
My suggestion is aimed at simplicity. It proposes one human-readable number format by default, not a constant interchange of underlying types. To me it is very much in the spirit of the Sqlite paradigm. JS Andrew Piskorski wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:43:31AM -0600, John Stanton wrote:

[sqlite] bignums and the numerical tower

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:43:31AM -0600, John Stanton wrote: > Subject: Re: [sqlite] Proposed 3.3.0 changes. Was: 5/2==2 > You misunderstood the comment. A schoolchild expects to see 5/2 give > exactly 2.5, not an approximate representation of 2.5 in a floating > I question why we have to us