XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   Paul  wrote:   
   > On Thu, 12/18/2025 4:29 PM, Marian wrote:   
   >> Marian wrote:   
   >>>   BSSID: 8c:85:80:d1:be:37   
   >>>   Latitude: 32.45985031   
   >>>   Longitude: -93.81759643000001   
   >>>     BSSID: 8e:76:3f:f8:5d:cd   
   >>>   Latitude: 32.4594841   
   >>>   Longitude: -93.8175888   
   >>>     BSSID: 92:76:3f:f8:5d:cd   
   >>>   Latitude: 32.4594841   
   >>>   Longitude: -93.81756591   
   >>>     BSSID: 92:95:51:b5:b6:ae   
   >>>   Latitude: 32.45910644   
   >>>   Longitude: -93.81759643000001   
   >>   
   >> Does anyone have any idea why the highly insecure Apple WPS database   
   >> contains GPS entries to this illogically numerous set of decimal places?   
   >   
   > It's a lab accident. Beakers hair is on fire now.   
   >   
   >    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Beaker_%28Muppet%29-en.jpg   
   >   
   > If the database does not sanitize inputs, a thing like that could happen.   
   > (Storing data as strings, not as numbers.)   
   >   
   > If multiple BSSID reports with slightly varying GPS coords come in,   
   > some sort of math could average the coordinates or so.   
   >   
   > It's just as likely to be a not-representable-number problem, but   
   > you would need to find a better "calc" to work on that aspect.   
   >   
   > It really amounts to some sort of sloppy workmanship.   
      
   Correct. Which has been highlighted to Donald. The GPS coords are converted   
   to floats thereby introducing imprecision and he reports them unrounded.   
      
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