Re: Lua evolution and C99
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- Subject: Re: Lua evolution and C99
- From: Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>
- Date: 2011年8月06日 21:51:13 +0200
On 06/08/2011 20.58, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
Real numbers provide completeness (every Cauchy sequence has a limit)
just fine. You do not need Complex numbers for that.
Yes, that's why Gavin said complex numbers extend _integers_ in _two_ ways!
Integers are already complete. (Any Cauchy sequence within integers
must become constant after some index and therefore converge to that
constant).
I gave for understood Gavin was talking about sets that are also fields,
i.e. C is a *field* that includes the *field* R and they are both
*complete fields*.
IIRC (too many years since my exams of advanced calculus :-)
completeness is non-trivial (i.e. interesting from a mathematical POV)
only in the context of the theory of fields or normed spaces over a
field (R or C, specifically), or am I mistaken?
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Cheers.
-- Lorenzo