[PD] Some more float weirdness/fun
Mathieu Bouchard
matju at artengine.ca
Fri Mar 9 18:53:24 CET 2012
Le 2012-03-09 à 09:39:00, Charles Henry a écrit :
> Martin a écrit :
>> For any floatX unless X is infinity the number of floats that are not
>> exactly represented is always infinite.
For a floatX format where X is the number of bits, every float is exact
and there are at most pow(2,X) floats.
You mean that there are an infinity of numbers that round to a finite
number of floats.
> There is a countably infinite number of rational numbers and a
> uncountably infinite number of irrational numbers that cannot be
> represented.
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