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> You obviously can't have the entire rationals, because your computer's memory is finite. This doesn't matter, because our programs and data are finite. Bignu
by alisonkisk 5y ago
> You obviously can't have the entire rationals, because your computer's memory is finite.
This doesn't matter, because our programs and data are finite. Bignum (which is plain old Integer in Haskell) is unbounded, but commonm
- marcosdumay 5y agoThe memory size does not matter. For any finite size, you will get a closer approximation of the rationals from floating point than by a ratio of integers. The difference ratio only gets bigger when you add more memory.