7;t think in terms of infinite arithmetics
when programming.
And I hold up that the difference between finite and infinite is
actually quite a fundamental
concept. However quite a lot of people expect the floating
arithmetics rouding to give them
well behaved results.
Marcin Dalecki
using natural
numbers, which don't include negatives,
with integers. However it's a quite common mistake to forget how
"bad" floats "model" real numbers.
This corroborates the validity of the analogy with IEEE real
arithmetic.
And wrong assumptions lead to wrong conclusions.
Marcin Dalecki
float isn't! Thus this argument by analogy simply isn't valid.
Marcin Dalecki
