"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 - 11:41:16 CDT
