Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Is .2 irrational? Message-ID: <568@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 21:19:16 EST Article-I.D.: brl-sem.568 Posted: Wed Jan 7 21:19:16 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Jan-87 00:46:47 EST References: <442@catnip.UUCP> <7456@utzoo.UUCP> <153@piaget.UUCP> <1384@bunker.UUCP> Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab Lines: 10 In article <1384@bunker.UUCP>, garys@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