Timeline for Efficiency of representations of number
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| Sep 10, 2017 at 19:47 | comment | added | timur | @AndrejBauer: It would be greatly appreciated if you elaborate on those points and make it an answer! | |
| Sep 9, 2017 at 23:41 | comment | added | Andrej Bauer | There is both theoretical and practical evidence that floating points are far from being "the bast" way to represent the real numbers. Andt they obviously do not represent the real numbers, only a measure-zero finite subset of the reals. | |
| Sep 9, 2017 at 5:01 | answer | added | Aaron Meyerowitz | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 13:06 | answer | added | Federico Poloni | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 12:57 | comment | added | timur | @IgorRivin: I updated the question a bit. | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 12:57 | history | edited | timur | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2017 at 12:43 | comment | added | timur | @FedericoPoloni: Hence a separate bullet! | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 10:24 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Why do you mention integers in your first bullet? It seems to me that it is a very different problem (and a very different solution) from the case of real and floating point numbers. | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 6:41 | answer | added | Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 19:28 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 19:27 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | There is an ongoing and very practical debate surrounding the use of floats versus unums (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)) | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 19:16 | comment | added | Igor Rivin | What do you consider "efficient"? | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 19:13 | history | asked | timur | CC BY-SA 3.0 |