Daniël Mantione wrote:

N - Natural numbers
Z - Integer numbers
Q - Rational numbers
R - Real numbers
C - Complex numbers

Subranges of N, Z and Q can be represented exactly in a computer.

> R and C
can not, we use the floating point system as approximation.

This is big nonsense. The issue is not if they can be "represented in a computer" but that a 10-base decimal fraction can not be represented exactly in a 2-base floating point format.

Regards,

Adriaan

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