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It's fully possible for a computer to do symbolic math without reducing the symbols to a decimal.
by ggggtez 6y ago
It's fully possible for a computer to do symbolic math without reducing the symbols to a decimal.
- sgillen 6y agoOf course! I meant my comment to be tongue in cheek, but saying that some numbers are uncomputable is not incompatible with symbolic math on a computer. Note that for example Pi is computable, despite having an infinite decimal expansion.