Re: Rational numbers... was Re: irrational nubmer?

2020-02-20 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2020-02-20 05:53, Richard Hainsworth wrote: However, my question to you is: when would you come across an irrational number in a computer? How would you express it? Suppose I gave you a function  sub irrational( $x ) which returns true for an irrational number. What would you put in for $x?

Rational numbers... was Re: irrational nubmer?

2020-02-20 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Hi Todd, This is going to be hard for an intuitive guy like you, but it can be proven that 100% of all numbers are irrational (see https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1556670/100-of-the-real-numbers-between-0-and-1-are-irrational ). Except the ones that a computer can do operations on,