Re: Questions on possreps
From: David BL <davidbl_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 02:00:13 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 02:00:13 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 27, 2:27 pm, David BL <davi..._at_iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On May 27, 6:55 am, Eric <e..._at_deptj.eu> wrote:
>
> > On 2011-05-26, David BL <davi..._at_iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > > 16) Does Date outlaw types which are uncountably infinite (because
> > > there is no representation with a finite encoding for every value)?
>
> > Of course not, why would anyone do that?
>
> I would! The reals are clearly the most appropriate abstraction of
> numbers in computational geometry applications.