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SubjectRe: Float numbers in module programming
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.

Andre
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