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And then you discover that you have a square root in your computation.

• xentronium 16y ago
  Good point, but rational numbers aren't closed under power/square root operation :)
• 3pt14159 16y ago
  Even then it doesn't matter fully. There are some languages with supported data types where you can actually write the equivalent of. x = 2 y = 2 1.upto 100 do x = x ** (1 / 2) end 1.upto 100 do x = x ** 2 end x == y # => true because it handles the math by only evaluating the operations at the very end.
  • jules 16y ago
    Which ones? It honestly seems unlikely to me that this would work well in practice.