Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote: > > That's why I think you need to be clear that your point isn't > > “computers don't work with real numbers”, but rather “computers work > > only with a limited subset of real numbers”. > > Hmm, I'm not sure that my statement is false. If a computer can work > with "real numbers", then I would expect it to be able to work with > any real number.
Likewise, if you claim that a computer *does not* work with real numbers, then I would expect that for any real number, the computer would fail to work with that number. Which is why neither of those is a good statement of your position, IMO, and you're better off saying the *limitations* you're describing. -- \ “An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be | `\ made in a very narrow field.” —Niels Bohr | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
