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In what way do they behave like ranges? I generally prefer to think of them as they are: able to represent a subset of the rationals, plus a couple other weird
by repiret 3y ago
In what way do they behave like ranges?
I generally prefer to think of them as they are: able to represent a subset of the rationals, plus a couple other weird values, but not a field, and importantly, not obeying any of the usual algebraic laws with arithmetic.
- lmm 3y agoYep. Floating point addition is not even associative, so they're not only not a field, but not a ring, not a group, nor even a monoid.