14 Jun
2020
14 Jun
'20
1:15 p.m.
=Keith F. Lynch As a computer guy, I consider real numbers and integers to be two very different things...
Yes! Likewise, real numbers and floating-point numbers are two very different things. Alas floating-point numbers are deceptively advertised as "real". Flonums only implement a limited subset of the dyadic rationals. All else is marketing hype. Anyway, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_to_the_power_of_zero#Treatment_on_compute...