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You can't do trigonometry on the rationals, which would prevent any games, graphics software, audio mixing software etc from using the rationals.
by lozenge 4y ago
You can't do trigonometry on the rationals, which would prevent any games, graphics software, audio mixing software etc from using the rationals.
- ketzu 4y agoI mean, you can, but you shouldn't. I don't think anyone is arguing that any representation is suitable for all usecases or that ieee754 should not be available in programming languages. Also, I think I'm too tired by now, I get confused too much between the rationals as the rational numbers \mathbb{Q} and the rationals as an implementation of rational numbers using a quotient of two integers.