On Nov 28, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Rick Regan wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Doug Currie <doug.cur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Nov 28, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Rick Regan wrote: >> >>> Michael, >>> Thanks for the very thorough analysis. >> >> This is a difficult problem; fortunately it was solved 20 years ago... >> >> Well, it's not solved on Windows. :)
There is a new publication on this subject that may be of interest to those looking at providing solutions: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1806623 It (Grisu2) works without bignums if you are willing to settle for the shortest string in 99.8% of cases, and an accurate but not shortest string in the remaining cases. e _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
