Floating point errors?

[Michael Hudson]

Darren New <dnew at san.rr.com> writes:

> Greg Ewing wrote:
> > Is there even any such thing as a truly analog
> > computer? Atoms have discrete energy levels...
> 
> AFAIK, there's no lower bound on the amount of energy a photon is
> allowed to carry.

The wavelengths will become a bit unwieldy though, won't they?
"Here's my nearly analog computer, it's only a parsec to a side and it
takes about a million years to add two 16 bit numbers, and another
thousand for the signal to get back to you."

Cheers,
M.
Who can't remember how many light years there are in a parsec and can't
be bothered to look it up.

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