Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > 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. In C, I can declare an 'int' variable, which can hold > the real number 4 - does that mean that that variable stores real > numbers? No, and it's not useful to say that it does. It doesn't store > rationals either, even though 4 is a rational. The fact that computers > can work with some subset of real numbers does not disprove my > statement that computers don't work with "real numbers" as a class. > Program X works with text files, but it fails if the file contains > U+003C; can I feed it this thing, which is a text file? No, I can't, > because it works only with a subset of text files.
According to your definition, there's no computer in the world that can work with integers or text files. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
