On Nov 4, 2004, at 8:29 PM, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
Jeff Clites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I.e., PMCs don't inherently exponentiate--numbers do, and you can exponentiate PMCs by numberizing them, exponentiating, and creating a PMC with the result.
This is true. But how do you define a number? Do you include floating-point? Fixed-point? Bignum? Bigrat? Complex? Surreal? Matrix? N registers don't even begin to encompass all the "numbers" out there.
Floating point, and possibly integer. Those are the numeric primitives of processors. Other aggregate mathematical types are always defined in terms of those (in a computing context), one way or another.
JEff
