From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-06 18:23:45
"Joel Eidsath" <jeidsath_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:431DCDEF.1020501_at_gmail.com...
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> Andy Little wrote:
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>>On the contrary, conversion from rational to float is an example of a "lossy
>>conversion".
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> Wrong. It is sometimes lossy, it is sometimes exact.
Thats true but irrelevant, because you cant tell, given only the resulting
floating point representation, whether your
floating-point value is representing an approximation to some value which may
be rational or itrrational or alternatively is an exact representation of a
rational value.
regards
Andy Little