Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:26:43 +0200 | From | Andre Noll <> | Subject | Re: Float numbers in module programming |
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On 08:09, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> For instance __all__ real numbers, except for transcendentals, can > be represented as a ratio of two integers.
Nope. It was known already to Euklid (300 before christ) that the real number sqrt(2) can _not_ be represented as ratio of two integers. Of course, sqrt(2) is not transcendental because it is a zero of x^2 - 2, a polynomial with integer coefficients.
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