Re: Indices starting from non-1 (Was: Killa: a scripting language ...)

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• Subject: Re: Indices starting from non-1 (Was: Killa: a scripting language ...)
• From: Jorge <xxopxe@...>
• Date: 2013年3月01日 12:43:10 -0200

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On 02/28/2013 08:40 PM, Christopher Berardi wrote:

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:35:55PM -0200, Jorge wrote:

Wait, that's no PI!
An idea for a project: replace the fp in Luas number for a pair of
integers, a and b, representing the fraction a/b. Define operations
accordingly, and modify the parser.
Jorge

So shall we ignore all the irrational numbers? No PI, sqrt(2), etc.?

It's a (non-fun) joke. There are no irrational numbers inside a computer, unless you handle them symbolically (an irrational number has infinite digits which are not a repetition of a sequence). So if we are to handle only rationals, let be explicit on that.

Stuff: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ContinuedFraction.html
Jorge

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