On Mar 6, 6:11 am, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote: > some additional info i thought is relevant. > > are int, float, long, double, side-effects of computer engineering?
It is a bit naive for computer scientists to club integers and reals as mathematicians do given that for real numbers, even equality is undecidable! Mostly when a system like mathematica talks of real numbers it means computable real numbers which is a subset of mathematical real numbers (and of course a superset of floats) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number#Can_computable_numbers_be_used_instead_of_the_reals.3F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list