Re: Temporal database - no end date

"Aloha Kakuikanu" <aloha.kakuikanu_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

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>> How would you describe the relationship between floating point numbers
>> and the reals? Pretends? Imitates? Masquerades? We need some word.

     "models". The word even covers the detail being lost.

>Bastardize?
>
>I agree with Tegiri that int is much more satisfactory model of
>integers, compared to float model of the real numbers. It is a common
>knowledge that the only field where floats are useful is computer
>graphics.

     Ha! Scientific processing can make good use of floats. They were used to even more limited precision. Computer floats have higher prcision than a slide rule.

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Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:

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