On 2017-04-05 19:21, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
The latter bit about 'not being able to do arithmetic' might sound odd
but it is
a reflection of the finiteness of computers.
Just correcting myself: 'finiteness of computers' was the wrong thing to
say
here - if you can represent a number as a decimal string in a computer
then it
is clearly finite as the amount of memory you have is finite.
Therefore, it is more about 'needing to do arithmetic quickly on
computers'
(for some definition of 'quickly').
Mark.
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Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
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