good morning; > On 2016-06-18, at 22:25, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 18/06/16 15:08, Jean-Marc Vanel wrote: >> […] > >> >> The advantages of numbers stored as binary versus strings are: >> >> - less storage >> - less CPU in conversion of string => number when using API >> - more efficient SPARQL queries involving numbers computations > > A negative is that exact representation is lost > > "+1" and "1" and "0001" > > "1"^^xsd:integer and "1"^^xsd:int
have there been applications where this mattered, where it was eventually decided that it was necessary to entrain some distinction in the encoding and not better to account for the respective semantics explicitly in the model? best regards, from berlin, --- james anderson | [email protected] | http://dydra.com
