Re: Possreps and numeric types

Marshall wrote:

> On Mar 26, 5:46 pm, Matthias Klaey <m..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>"Marshall" <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:

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> When approximation occurs, in all cases it occurs in the
> operators and not in the numbers.

When you read a volt meter and write down 12V, are you suggesting 12 is the exact value? Or is it really 12V +/- 0.5V or 12V +/- 1V ? Or some other range?

When the computer has 12 to operate on, how does the computer know the provenance and that it represented an exact value as opposed to some approximate measure? Received on Tue Mar 27 2007 - 05:17:30 CEST