Re: why are floats flakey?
Re: why are floats flakey?
- Subject: Re: why are floats flakey?
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 18:06:16 +0200
Raphael,
On 25.5.2004, at 16:20, Raphael Sebbe wrote:
>
>> Time = TimeValue / TimeScale
>
>> That way, any rational number can be used
...
>
... I meant that any rational rate (by opposition to irrational) can
>
be used with no lost using that method ....
Which is not true (that's why I have written). A rational rate which
happens to be a rate of two prime numbers, (at least) one of which is
outside the integer range (and there provably is an inifinite number of
such prime numbers!) can *never* be expressed using your notation.
In other words, the notation is in principle just as "flakey" as
floats; the *only* difference is that the non-expressible number set is
different.
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Ondra Hada
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