On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:24 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> The problem is that its fairly easy to be casually wrong when using reals
> as indexes.  What does 10. index? (Hint: floating point numbers can't
> represent 10 exactly, its 9.999999...)


This is simply untrue. All integers between ±2^53 can be represented
exactly as Float64s. Beyond that, many integers can be represented exactly,
but not all of them.

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