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minus-squareCodexArcanumlinkfedilinkEnglish20•6 months agoTechnically, 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•6 months agoIt does not even imitate all rationals. For example 1/3.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•6 months agothank you …i wish math would just calm down, it’s a lunatic
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•edit-26 months agoMathematicians are just bad at naming things. For example Rings don’t resemble circles Fields aren’t literal open spaces Normal has about 20 different meanings Chaos is not random
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.
It does not even imitate all rationals. For example 1/3.
… Surreal numbers?!?
Basically also include all the infinities.
thank you
…i wish math would just calm down, it’s a lunatic
Mathematicians are just bad at naming things. For example
Rings don’t resemble circles
Fields aren’t literal open spaces
Normal has about 20 different meanings
Chaos is not random