your comment led me to wonder why we commonly represent real numbers as floating-point in computing, and not, for example, as fractions. https://retrocomputing

your comment led me to wonder why we commonly represent real numbers as floating-point in computing, and not, for example, as fractions. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7810/why-not-use-fractions-instead-of-floating-point https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7810/why-...