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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Technically, floating point also imitates irrational and whole numbers as well. Not all numbers though, you'd need a more uhm... elaborate structure to represent complex numbers, surreal numbers, vectors, matrices, and so on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It does not even imitate all rationals. For example 1/3.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

.... Surreal numbers?!?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Basically also include all the infinities.