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minus-squarecodexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·8 days agoTechnically, floating point also imitates irrational and whole numbers as well. Not all numbers though, you’d need a more uhm… elaborate structure to represent complex numbers, surreal numbers, vectors, matrices, and so on.
minus-squareneedanke@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 days agoIt does not even imitate all rationals. For example 1/3.
Technically, floating point also imitates irrational and whole numbers as well. Not all numbers though, you’d need a more uhm… elaborate structure to represent complex numbers, surreal numbers, vectors, matrices, and so on.
… Surreal numbers?!?
It does not even imitate all rationals. For example 1/3.