On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:13:34AM +0100, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> One can see it as a rational. Then it's not a field because not all
> combinations of values and operations will return another float.
> Or one can see it as a IEEE model number (basically, an interval of
> rationals, plus some extra values). That's a field, but the
> semantics are complicated and unreliable.

A "field", in which "+" is not associative - not a field...

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