On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 09:56 -0800, Tobiah wrote: > > For every floating point > > number there is a corresponding real number, but 0% of real numbers > > can be represented exactly by floating point numbers. > > It seems to me that there are a great many real numbers that can be > represented exactly by floating point numbers. The number 1 is an > example. > > I suppose that if you divide that count by the infinite count of all > real numbers, you could argue that the result is 0%.
It's not just an argument - it's mathematically correct. The same can be said for ints representing the natural numbers, or positive integers. However, ints can represent 100% of integers within a specific range, where floats can't represent all real numbers for any range (except for the empty set) - because there's an infinate number of real numbers within any non-trivial range. Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
