Floating point errors?

[Grant Edwards]

On Fri, 11 May 2001 23:16:21 GMT, Nick Perkins <nperkins7 at home.com> wrote:
>>Since 0% of the possible real numbers are representable in IEEE
>>754, then it's obviously useless and all floating-point support
>>should be dropped from Python.
>
>Same goes for integers, 0% of them are representable,
>so let's get rid of them too.

At least you can pick a range of MININT to MAXINT where a
significant percentage (one would hope for 100%) of integers
can be represented.  Even within the range MINDOUBLE to
MAXDOUBLE, 0% of the real numbers can be represented.  It's a
sad state of affairs.  Analog computers are the only way to go
for non-discrete problems -- but then there's the whole problem
with the thermal noise floor. 

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