minus-squarecodexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•IEEE 754linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·8 days agoTechnically, floating point also imitates irrational and whole numbers as well. Not all numbers though, you’d need a more uhm… elaborate structure to represent complex numbers, surreal numbers, vectors, matrices, and so on. linkfedilink
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Technically, floating point also imitates irrational and whole numbers as well. Not all numbers though, you’d need a more uhm… elaborate structure to represent complex numbers, surreal numbers, vectors, matrices, and so on.