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  • codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Technically, floating point also imitates irrational and whole numbers as well. Not all numbers though, you'd need a more uhm... elaborate structure to represent complex numbers, surreal numbers, vectors, matrices, and so on.