On 10/28/2015 6:52 PM, SQLite mailing list wrote: > However, I would support improvement in its floating point calculations, > including implementing 'slop' in testing for equality. This is not only for > use when expressions include the equal sign, but also for cases where > comparing two numbers is done in important internal operations, like checking > that primary keys do not include duplicate entries.
This can't possibly work. "Fuzzy equality" is not transitive (x is close enough to y, y is close enough to z, but x is just far enough from z to be non-equal), which would break any indexing scheme. -- Igor Tandetnik
