Re: Float numbers in module programming

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Andre Noll wrote:

> On 08:09, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>
>> For instance __all__ real numbers, except for transcendentals, can
>> be represented as a ratio of two integers.
>
> Nope. It was known already to Euklid (300 before christ) that the real
> number sqrt(2) can _not_ be represented as ratio of two integers. Of
> course, sqrt(2) is not transcendental because it is a zero of x^2 -
> 2, a polynomial with integer coefficients.
>
> Andre
> --

Yeah. The correct word was irrational, which is its definition. The
point was that one can do a lot of very accurate work on real numbers
without using the FP unit and the decimal system.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.15.4 on an i686 machine (5589.42 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction, book release in April.
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