On 2014-02-12, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have yet to find any computer that works with the set of real
>> numbers in any way. Never mind optimization, they simply cannot work
>> with real numbers.
>
> Not *any* computer? Not in *any* way? The Python built-in "float"
> type "works with the set of real numbers", in a way.
The only people who think that are people who don't actualy _use_
floating point types on computers.
> What specific behaviour would, for you, qualify as "works with the
> set of real numbers in any way"
There's a whole laundry list of things (some of them rather nasty and
difficult) you have to worry about when using FP that simply don't
apply to "real" numbers.
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