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minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoCounterpoint: Floating-point inaccuracies.
minus-squareVerat@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 months agoIn that case decimal is flawed too, 0.6667 or any such approxination doesnt exactly equal 2/3. It technically happens in any number system where you are dividing by a prime that isnt part of either the base or the number being divided
minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoCounterpoint 1: 0.6̇ (Unicode does not support numbers with overdots correctly) Counterpoint 2: 2/3
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoIt won’t work with irrational numbers, or transcendental numbers even if you allow things like √2. But honestly I have no idea what the point of this conversation even is
minus-squarebequirtle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 months agoIf fractions and repeating decimals are allowed, then we can also write these in binary
minus-squarehglman@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoFloating point is a consequence of physical computerr being finite not using binary.
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoCounter-counter-counterpoint: pi in base-pi can be written in one digit
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoCounter-counterpoint: Display the exact value of pi with 64 digits in any base N number system.
Counterpoint: Floating-point inaccuracies.
In that case decimal is flawed too, 0.6667 or any such approxination doesnt exactly equal 2/3. It technically happens in any number system where you are dividing by a prime that isnt part of either the base or the number being divided
Counterpoint 1:
0.6̇(Unicode does not support numbers with overdots correctly)Counterpoint 2:
2/3It won’t work with irrational numbers, or transcendental numbers even if you allow things like √2.
But honestly I have no idea what the point of this conversation even is
If fractions and repeating decimals are allowed, then we can also write these in binary
Floating point is a consequence of physical computerr being finite not using binary.
Counter-counter-counterpoint: pi in base-pi can be written in one digit
Counter-counterpoint:
Display the exact value of pi with 64 digits in any base N number system.