Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)

Re:Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) by utxaa on Thursday February 20, 2020 @09:48AM (#22375408)

you never really deal with irrationals ... do you mean floating point?

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Re:Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) by gen220 on Friday February 21, 2020 @10:44AM (#22383909)

Nope, specifically meant irrationals.

Floating point (up to a certain amount of absurdity) you can describe with integers (value, scale).

Real numbers you can describe with integers (numerator, denominator, scale).

Irrationals are more difficult. That's why we try not to use them :). Hopefully your company's commission tiers are not defined in terms of circles or euclidean distances.

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