One may have seen a lot of mathematics, but one has seen a very limited amount of SQLite documentation apparently. One can assert that because the documentation shows that SQLite will store 4.0 as 4 (Integer)[1] which does not help the demonstration of possible floating point byte-order problem in the stored data. [1] From [SQLite Data Types](https://sqlite.org/datatype3.html): "As an internal optimization, small floating point values with no fractional component and stored in columns with REAL affinity are written to disk as integers in order to take up less space and are automatically converted back into floating point as the value is read out. This optimization is completely invisible at the SQL level and can only be detected by examining the raw bits of the database file".