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That doesn’t let you work with arbitrary real numbers because the vast majority of real numbers cannot by symbolicly encoded, even on a turing machine with infi
by anchpop 5y ago
That doesn’t let you work with arbitrary real numbers because the vast majority of real numbers cannot by symbolicly encoded, even on a turing machine with infinite memory
- Firadeoclus 5y agoIf they cannot be symbolically encoded why would you ever _need_ to encode them?
- anchpop 5y agoNot being able to do something has never stopped people from needing to do it :P That said, with Google's paper "towards an api for the real numbers", you get close enough for many practical purposes