Floating point errors?

[Greg Ewing]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> Analog computers are the only way to go
> for non-discrete problems -- but then there's the whole problem
> with the thermal noise floor.

Is there even any such thing as a truly analog
computer? Atoms have discrete energy levels...

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