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Comment: | Fix typos in the new floating point document. |
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User & Date: | drh 2020-07-26 13:24:41.842 |
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13:35 | Improved wording of the floatingpoint.html document. (check-in: 010e930cc2 user: drh tags: trunk) | |
13:24 | Fix typos in the new floating point document. (check-in: e26caafc33 user: drh tags: trunk) | |
2020-07-23
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09:32 | Add documentation for partial integrity_check. (check-in: 95ab7854dd user: drh tags: trunk) | |
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Changes to pages/floatingpoint.in.
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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | <p> So-called "REAL" or floating point values are stored in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754">IEEE 754</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format">Binary-64</a> format. This gives a range of positive values between approximately 1.7976931348623157e+308 and 4.9406564584124654e-324 with an equivalent | | | | | 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 | <p> So-called "REAL" or floating point values are stored in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754">IEEE 754</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format">Binary-64</a> format. This gives a range of positive values between approximately 1.7976931348623157e+308 and 4.9406564584124654e-324 with an equivalent range of negative values. A binary64 can also be 0.0 (and -0.0), positive and negative infinity and "NaN" or "Not-a-Number". Floating point values are approximate. <p> Pay close attention to the last sentence in the previous paragraph: <blockquote><b> Floating point values are approximate ← <u>Always</u> remember this! </b></blockquote> <p> If you need an exact answer, you should not use binary64 floating-point values, in SQLite or in any other product. This is not an SQLite limitation. It is a mathematical limitation inherent in the design of floating-point numbers. <h2>Floating-Point Accuracy</h2> <p> SQLite promises to preserve the 15 most significant digits of a floating point value. However, it makes no guarantees about the accuracy of computations on floating point values, as no such guarantees are possible. |
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96 97 98 99 100 101 102 | <p>Not ever decimal number with fewer than 16 significant digits can be represented exactly as a binary64 number. In fact, most decimal numbers with digits to the right of the decimal point lack an exact binary64 equivalent. For example, if you have a database column that is intended to hold an item price in dollars and cents, the only cents value that can be exactly represented are 0.00, 0.25, 0.50, and 0.75. Any other | | | 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 | <p>Not ever decimal number with fewer than 16 significant digits can be represented exactly as a binary64 number. In fact, most decimal numbers with digits to the right of the decimal point lack an exact binary64 equivalent. For example, if you have a database column that is intended to hold an item price in dollars and cents, the only cents value that can be exactly represented are 0.00, 0.25, 0.50, and 0.75. Any other numbers to the right of the decimal point result in an approximation. If you provide a "price" value of 47.49, that number will be represented in binary64 as: <blockquote> 6683623321994527 × 2<sup><small>-47</small></sup> </blockquote> |
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278 279 280 281 282 283 284 | <ul> <li> decimal_add(A,B) <li> decimal_sub(A,B) <li> decimal_mul(A,B) </ul> </p> | | | 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 | <ul> <li> decimal_add(A,B) <li> decimal_sub(A,B) <li> decimal_mul(A,B) </ul> </p> <p>These functions respectively add, subtract, and multiply their arguments and return a new text string that is the decimal representation of the result. There is no division operator at this time. <p>Use the decimal_cmp(A,B) to compare two decimal values. The result will be negative, zero, or positive if A is less than, equal to, or greater than B, respectively. |
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