Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Float numbers in module programming | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:40:22 -0800 |
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> > For instance __all__ real numbers, except for transcendentals, can > > be represented as a ratio of two integers.
> Dear wrongbot, "transcendentals" doesn't mean what you think it means.
Yes, I got a real kick out of his statement, because he has risen above his usual simple level of wrongness and come up with something doubly wrong. First, there are certainly real numbers such as the square root of 2, which are neither trancendental nor the ratio of integers. And anyway, there are infinitely more transcendental numbers than rational numbers, so only an infinitesimally small fraction of real numbers can be represented as a ratio of integers.
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