Re: String representations of numeric values

From: Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor-at-bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:57:43 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Thomas McGlynn wrote:

> At it's clear that the USNO table is incorrect in the new version
> (since it specifies that the column is a double).

I've just retrieved a table from the USNO-B conesearch using the URL: http://www.nofs.navy.mil/cgi-bin/vo_cone.cgi?CAT=USNO-B1&RA=50.1&DEC=-37.5&SR=0.16 It has RA and DEC FIELD components with the attributes

    datatype="double" arraysize="3x1"

which, while you might argue it's eccentric, is not incorrect, this is exactly how you specify an array-valued column according to both versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the standard.

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Received on 2006-04-21Z10:58:56