Hello.

There is a difference between a decimal, ie a rational which can be written
N/10^P and a float. A float number is an approximation so you can't really
see it as rationals. No ?

Christophe BAL


2014-03-20 22:35 GMT+01:00 Aaron Meurer <[email protected]>:

> Can you think of a fact in the assumptions system (implemented or not)
> that would break if floats are rational?
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Sergey B Kirpichev
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:15:25PM -0500, Aaron Meurer wrote:
> >> So it's basically always been that way. The motivation is probably
> >> that any float representation must be finite, and hence rational.
> >
> > But arithmetic operations on rational numbers obey very
> > different algebraic properties (e.g. it's a field).
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