What do we mean when we write 1.3 in a computer language, most of the time? Again, looking at VW just because I'm most familiar with it these days, doubles (what Squeak calls floats) are written as 1.3d. Floats (single precision IEEE-754) are written 1.3, but can also be written 1.3e. Hernan Wilkinson wrote:
exactly! and programing languages should help us not hardware.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>> wrote:
I have the impression that we see the problem of representation of what we manipulate. In the mathematical world it makes sense to write 1.3 to mean 13/10 now since in computer world 1.3 is not 13/10 may be we should have ~1.3 or something like that.
Stef
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