On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 09:04:40 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
I believe that the repeating decimals, or better, repeating
binary fractions, will hardly be more useful than a rational
representation like p/q.
Yeah, in retrospect I would say that a binary layout like:
numberator length | +- | numerator | divisor
Might be a stronger solution, or at least one which offers
different advantages over what we have today. It still wouldn't
be able to represent pi accurately, since it isn't a rational
number, but I wouldn't be surprised if a rational number exists
that could be represented than can be represented in IEEE format.
