Re:How do you compute the midpoint of an interval? (2014) [pdf]
by jacobolus on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:27PM
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We are talking about the floating point number format and the behavior of computer programming languages.
In “mathematics”, the meaning of the symbol ∞ depends on what number system we are talking about. In some contexts ∞ is not a “number”, but rather a shorthand for a statement about limits. In other contexts it is a number.
In “mathematics”, the meaning of the symbol ∞ depends on what number system we are talking about. In some contexts ∞ is not a “number”, but rather a shorthand for a statement about limits. In other contexts it is a number.
If you want to learn about the “affinely extended real numbers”, which is what floating point numbers more or less approximate, you can read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_real_number_line