Re: "Numeric overflow"?
Re: "Numeric overflow"?
- Subject: Re: "Numeric overflow"?
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:41:07 -0700
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:02:44 -0600, Gnarlodious
<email@hidden> said:
>I have often considered zero to be an unreasonable number
Zero is reasonable. The square root of two is not, and was correctly named
so by the Greeks who actually called it "unreasonable". (The Latin calque
"irrational" loses a lot in translation.)
m.
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