Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:26:47 -0400
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"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message
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> The difference here is between rationals and irrationals;
I disagree.
In this sense "sqrt(2)" is not all that different.
I could, if you were so inclined, be represented as a finite ternary
fraction.
Even the traditional "floating point number" is really an expression.
> rationals present no huge difficulties but irrationals
> cannot be represented extensionally in finite space.