Is .2 irrational?
Ron Natalie <ron>
ron at brl-sem.ARPA
Thu Jan 8 12:19:16 AEST 1987
In article <1384 at bunker.UUCP>, garys at bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) writes:
> floating point format could
> be designed which allowed exact representation of all decimal fractions,
> up to some number of places precision.
Gee, how do you deal with 1/3? I'm not sure how I do that even on
a decimal computer. Perhaps you meant that can handle an exact represntation
of all fractions of the form INTEGER/(Power of 10)
-Ron
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