Re: Float to String

[Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>]

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> And then 256-bit, where is any end? What you are trying to do is to define
> a god-integer type to satisfy all possible requirements. That is
> impossible.

Yes, but I just want "big enough" for common values in databases. The 
current triad of types Integer_64, Float_64, String is enough.

> You can make it 1024-bit, but then it will be unsuitable for
> pixels of an image.

Pixels would be stored in a String. Because you can convert 
(uncheckedly) any contiguous value to String. Like the "blob" type of 
Oracle et al. (Remember Mneson is NOT an *Ada* object database. It is a 
database system that happens to be implemented in Ada.)

> What about a database scalable from an embedded
> microcontroller to a super cluster?

This is another issue. Mneson can run on any system that is a target of 
an Ada compiler. I believe this includes some of those, no?