On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 11:37:47 -0600
Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote:

> Put another way, your defaults are already so large that no
> conceivable physical entity could build a computer big enough to
> simultaneously contain every distinct state your data type represents.

Exactly (as it were).  

Physical entities cannot be measured to more than 6 orders of
magnitude.  Finer than that, error takes over.  

What is the distance from New York to Los Angeles?  

We know it's 3,944 km.  Do we know it's 3,944,000 meters?  3,944,000,000
mm? We do not.  

--jkl
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