>while it's relatively simple to make integers arbitrarily large, >floating point is a much more difficult proposition:
I know, rationally, that this is true. But intuitively it's always struck a sour note. A floating point number is just an integer with a dot in the middle. Why is it such a different beast? -Dan PS: I once had a very heated philosophical argument with a professor on this very subject. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
