On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensa...@soegaard.net> wrote: > > Apropos philosophy. The rrrs mailing list is available online and > contains various > exchanges on inexact numbers. Here is one from Guy Steele with the > memorable quote: > > INEXACT NUMBERS ARE NOT NUMBERS > > INEXACT NUMBERS ARE NOT NUMBERS > > INEXACT NUMBERS ARE NOT NUMBERS > > They do not obey the rules followed by numbers, because they cannot. > Inexact numbers only represent our -approximate- -knowledge- about numbers. > > See > > http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scheme-mail/HTML/rrrs-1989/msg00178.html
If I have read the message correctly, Guy was quoting those three lines as well; they were written by Alan Bawden. --Carl _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
