Working with the set of real numbers

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Text files suffer from the same caveat as integers: there's a limit to
> how much you can store on the physical computer.

Sure, but nobody said the text file had to be _stored_ anywhere :)
Computers are quite capable of working with streams of incoming data
that are potentially infinite in size. But again, this is the same
caveat as the Turing machine. If you wrote a Python interpreter for a
Turing machine, it would be - without any changes to Python - capable
of handling any integer and any text file.

ChrisA