Re: Float to String

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:27:07 +0000, Marius Amado Alves wrote:

> [... 64, 128....]
>> 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.

If "big enough" should be a requirement, then what 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.

Well, this not ADT, this is not even typed. Like in FORTRAN-IV where
everything was LOGICAL*1 array...

> (Remember Mneson is NOT an *Ada* object database. It is a 
> database system that happens to be implemented in Ada.)

Here Ada is only an example of a typed language, which tried to keep type
interface and implementation separate.

>> 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?

64-bit floats and integers on a 16-bit controller?

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