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Re:The Math Myth by moron4hire on Saturday September 03, 2016 @09:27AM (#12419113)
You are discarding an essential part of the representation. You are moving the goal post to make yourself right. Just because people don't always understand infinitesimals doesn't make them right. It's the reason they are wrong. There just plain don't know what they are talking about.

You can't represent 0.2 exactly using IEEE floats, either, but that doesn't mean the representation 0.2 is not exactly equal to 1/5th.

Re:The Math Myth by anthk on Saturday September 03, 2016 @12:02PM (#12419673)
Scheme has (exact->inexact x) and (inexact->exact x) for those issues.