16 Dec
2008
16 Dec
'08
8:03 a.m.
I wrote:
- These syntaxes' ORDERING rules sort as strings - so to get correct ordering you'll likely want to invent a format where memcmp(num1, num2) < 0 if num1 < num2.
Er, try "invent" -> "find", whether for client implementation or server-side index implementation. Floating point can be tricky to get quite right, in particular when NaN etc is included. Hopefully someone else has already needed sortable floating-point strings and invented them.
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Hallvard