From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
beware <wimille@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Float numbers in module programming
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:40:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ada4q1f3k6x.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060330173136.GZ27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (Al Viro's message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:31:36 +0100")
> > For instance __all__ real numbers, except for transcendentals, can
> > be represented as a ratio of two integers.
> Dear wrongbot, "transcendentals" doesn't mean what you think it means.
Yes, I got a real kick out of his statement, because he has risen
above his usual simple level of wrongness and come up with something
doubly wrong. First, there are certainly real numbers such as the
square root of 2, which are neither trancendental nor the ratio of
integers. And anyway, there are infinitely more transcendental
numbers than rational numbers, so only an infinitesimally small
fraction of real numbers can be represented as a ratio of integers.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-30 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-29 14:34 Float numbers in module programming beware
2006-03-29 15:02 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-30 8:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-30 13:09 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-30 17:23 ` Phillip Susi
2006-04-03 6:55 ` Helge Hafting
2006-04-03 9:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-30 17:31 ` Al Viro
2006-03-30 17:40 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-03-30 18:02 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-03-30 18:26 ` Andre Noll
2006-03-30 18:46 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-31 7:57 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-03-31 11:05 ` Peter Williams
2006-03-29 15:07 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-30 8:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
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