Re: Infinite precision floating-point

André Thieme wrote:

> Hello Barry!
>
> Okay, it might be true what you say. Perhaps in the analog part of our
> world there exist something like irrational numbers. I can't disprove
> that. However, Barry, I don't buy it!

Well, I would say that there are a fair number of irrational numbers in
the analog world. Pi and the square root of 2 for starters.

--
Thomas A. Russ, USC/Information Sciences Institute

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