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burnished
on Feb 16, 2023
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Does mathematics need a philosophy?
No, it is typically described using scientific notation - floating point is a fixed width representation of a number with fractional parts.
jameshart
on Feb 16, 2023
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And floating point numbers - and scientific notation - can both only express rationals. They aren’t ‘reals’.
Koshkin
on Feb 17, 2023
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My point was that it seems that in calculations it is useful to think of very large integers that are known to some approximation as real numbers.
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