Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS
From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:41:16 -0700
Message-ID: <9oF1d.50$0k2.52_at_news.oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:41:16 -0700
Message-ID: <9oF1d.50$0k2.52_at_news.oracle.com>
"Paul" <paul_at_test.com> wrote in message
news:414714c4$0$52348$ed2619ec_at_ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
> But irrationals, or even the subset of them that is the nth roots of
> integers, don't have such a canonical form - for example consider
> sqrt(2) + sqrt(3). So after a few simple addition or multiplication
> operations the representation will rapidly get very unwieldy.
When adding integers the representation grows as well, so there is really no difference. Received on Tue Sep 14 2004 - 18:41:16 CEST