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Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by Ericson2314 on Thursday April 21, 2016 @11:03PM (#11546804)
That just means == is a "lossy" equivalence relation. I rather the precision be truely observable----every number is "infinite precision". Once can always include natural as extra field if one cares about empirical precision.
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Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by tjonker on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:16AM (#11547026)
I'm having a bit of trouble parsing this, but Ion decimal values are not "infinite precision". Every decimal has a very specific, finite precision. It's a standard "coefficient and exponent" model, with no specification-enforced limit on either.
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Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by Ericson2314 on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:07AM (#11549719)
The idea is each number is adequately precise in that additional precision would mean additional useless trailing zeros.
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