6 Sep
2005
6 Sep
'05
11:23 p.m.
"Joel Eidsath" <jeidsath@gmail.com> wrote in message news:431DCDEF.1020501@gmail.com...
Andy Little wrote:
On the contrary, conversion from rational to float is an example of a "lossy conversion".
Wrong. It is sometimes lossy, it is sometimes exact.
Thats true but irrelevant, because you cant tell, given only the resulting floating point representation, whether your floating-point value is representing an approximation to some value which may be rational or itrrational or alternatively is an exact representation of a rational value. regards Andy Little