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Subject: Re: why learn C?
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On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 18:39 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:47:36 GMT, Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> > floating point number that you
> > write in a program is in fact a rational number,
> 
> No, this is an incorrect statement. I can build hardware for floating-point
> numbers with the radix e.

Will radix e hardware be digital hardware?