>
> > > Actually, a problem that none of the proposals in this mailing list
> > > addresses is the possibility that a commodity mught be bought and
> > > sold in units whose conversion factors are irrational.
> >
> > As I said before, you can have irrational pricing but not irrational prices.
> > The ledgers represent inventories. Inventories can be counted.
> > Prices are exchange ratios. You trade items in one inventory for items in a
> > different inventory. As such, field theory tells us that we will never have
> > to deal with values that cannot be mapped onto the rational numbers.
>
> People do _not_ use irrational numbers; supposing they count in radians,
> the one situation where it might _appear_ to be an exception, they're
> likely basing this on _integer fractions_ of radians, which means that
> the unit of measure is an integer fraction that just happens to get
> multiplied by Pi so as to make it _appear_ irrational.
>
Good Grief, that irrational number thing was a joke!
> > > Can you, for example buy angles in degrees and sell them in radians?
> >
> > <humor>
> > Well, I won't "buy" that angle.
> > Where did you buy your degree?
> > Radian's already been sold.
> > </humor>
But not marked as such because I was unaware of the HTML <humor> tag. :-(
Or is that a joke, too? :-)
> >
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