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Subject: Re: why learn C?
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On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 22:33 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>  I can build hardware for floating-point
> >> numbers with the radix e.
> > 
> > Will radix e hardware be digital hardware?
> 
> Why not? It is just about representation of numbers in the form
> 
> X = sum Xk e**k
> 
> That's computable.

Hm. Are you saying that e is computable using digital hardware
in finite time?
Or that we interpret some discrete unit in the computer as
a base named e?