On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Bardur Arantsson <s...@scientician.net>wrote:
> On 2013-09-20 18:31, Brandon Allbery wrote: > [--snip--] > > unless you have a very clever representation that can store > > in terms of some operation like sin(x) or ln(x).) > > I may just be hallucinating, but I think this is called "describable > numbers", i.e. numbers which can described by some (finite) formula. > > Not sure how useful they would be in practice, though :). > I was actually reaching toward a more symbolic representation, like what Mathematica uses. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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