Re: Tutorial: Query the Apple database with Python for your access point BSSID

Chris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.internet.wireless,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jeff Liebermann <[email protected]> wrote:  
> 
> I can't determine if either company has a reason to have a longer
> Lat/Long.  However, notice the number of digits in the Lat, which are
> mostly zeros, except for the last digit:
>   Latitude: 32.459438320000004
> I don't know what they're doing, but it looks like they're using the
> Latitude to store some kind of data or ID.  There are several other
> entries in the data that show a similar pattern of 8 places to the
> right of the decimal point for useful data followed by 6 zeros and 1
> numeric digit.

These are from loss of precision in the storing of floating-point numbers
in python. They aren't real. The source data will not include all the
zeros.
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