- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:23:22 -0700
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>, "Evain, Jean-Pierre" <evain@ebu.ch>
- CC: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>, David Marland <david.marland@bbc.co.uk>, public-vocabs <public-vocabs@w3.org>, Richard Wallis <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>, Dan Scott <denials@gmail.com>
On 08/12/2014 06:08 AM, Dan Brickley wrote: > On 12 August 2014 14:03, Evain, Jean-Pierre <evain@ebu.ch> wrote: >> By non-integer I guess you mean e.g. string (or else) - then fine > > Yes. It's possible people sometimes number with 10.1, 10.2 etc too, > which technically looks like a Float though they're not intended for > mathematical use really... > > Dan I think that 10.1 and 10.2 are intended for mathematical use. They code for some sort of object that has at least a total order defined on it. That's mathematics, at least in my book. peter PS: Arguing that floats are not intended for mathematical use is more viable to me.
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