Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016, at 00:46, Ben Finney wrote: > > What is “those”? The measurement is imprecise, the observations are > > inexact. > > > > It makes no sense to say that a number is inexact. Exactness is not > > a property of a number. > > There's no reason it shouldn't be a property of an object of a numeric > type available in a programming environment though.
Yes. Because the object is not a number, it is a representation of a number :-) -- \ “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is | `\ obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't.” —Mark Twain, | _o__) _Following the Equator_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
