Re: "Numeric overflow"?
Re: "Numeric overflow"?
- Subject: Re: "Numeric overflow"?
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:15:54 -0600
At 20:45 -0400 9/14/05, deivy petrescu wrote:
>So, when one says Pi is irrational, one says that Pi is certainly *not* equal to 22/7.
As long as we're being pedantic, Pi is indeed not rational but it is also not irrational in the technical jargon of arithmetic - and perhaps of AppleScript but one never knows. . ..
An irrational number must be representable as a root of an algebraic polynomial. Pi is not - the circle cannot be squared. Numbers which are exactly representable only as an infinite series are said to be transcendental.
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--> If you are presented a number as a percentage, and you do not clearly understand the numerator and the denominator involved, you are surely being lied to. <--
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