OIC. I was under the impression that the C math libraries deal with numbers of high precision better than Livecode does, perhaps themselves generating errors on overflow. Maybe that is not the case.
Bob S > On Aug 9, 2017, at 10:11 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On 08/09/2017 09:56 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: >> I wonder how much leveraging SQLite can help. SQLite has only basic math >> functions, and you cannot use stored functions, but you CAN map functions to >> a C API. And if you can do THAT, then someone has written a math API, and >> maybe that is a good place to start looking. > > The problem isn't with the math libraries. There's nothing wrong with the way > the engine deals with math at that level, and I wouldn't expect SQLite to use > anything other than the standard math libraries. > > The problem I've run into is more at a higher level, dealing with number > parsing and runtime overflow detection before truncating input parameters > down to unsigned integers and calling the math library. > > -- > Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
