Re: why are floats flakey?
Re: why are floats flakey?
- Subject: Re: why are floats flakey?
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 18:37:44 -0700
On May 25, 2004, at 5:23 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:
On May 25, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Ondra Cada wrote:
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.
Okay, so if either the numerator or the denominator needs to be larger
than 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 then you can't express the number as a
ratio between two integers. But how often will that happen?
There's always good ol' pi, e, and sqrt(2). Pretty useful numbers, I'd
say... :)
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