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Name: Tony Blair 2014-03-22 6:04

Why do so many languages include the type of "real" numbers if real numbers are physically impossible to represent in any computer? There are no and will never be realnums in any computer, stop deluding yourselves.

Name: Anonymous 2014-03-22 11:05

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Rational numbers can easily be represented in a computer program by defining them as the quotient of two integers. Irrational numbers must be, just like IRL, represented by an approximation or a symbol.

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