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[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago

.... Surreal numbers?!?

[–] needanke@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

It does not even imitate all rationals. For example 1/3.