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Re:In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying... by swiley on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:14PM (#21635374)
You can represent most useful irrational numbers on computers via programs that calculate them to the required degree of precision:

You can represent pi:

  4*atan(1)
e:

  log(1)
Now I feel like you could make arguments about non-computable numbers, although I feel like you could still “represent” them.
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Re:In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying... by phonebucket on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @05:44AM (#21637119)
Upvoted for the sentiment. Although using log(1) to represent e gives me nothing (pun intended).
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Re:In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying... by jwilk on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:16AM (#21637295)
log(1) = 0

I think you meant exp(1).

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Re:In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying... by swiley on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:27AM (#21638507)
Darn, as much as I hate editing posts that old I do wish I could correct that.
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