26 Feb
2008
26 Feb
'08
8:32 p.m.
Jonathan Franklin wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Johan Råde <rade@maths.lth.se> wrote:
John Phillips wrote:
I am also concerned about merging it into the MathTools library. That is certainly where it belongs in a logical sense, I'm not so sure about that. Mathematics deals with real numbers. Computer science deals with floating point numbers.
There is a whole branch of mathematics (Numerical Analysis) that deals w/ numeric representation, and I don't know any mathematicians who aren't at least aware of it.
The binary representation of floating point numbers is computer science, not mathematics. Numerical analysis is an interdisciplinary field, involving both mathematics and computer science. --Johan