From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shellx.best.com>
Subject: Re: SI Units Solicitation - Upgrade from comments
Date: 1997/08/21
Date: 1997-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970821183728.24493B-100000@shellx.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.872181519@merv
On 21 Aug 1997, Robert Dewar wrote:
> I guess this is really a complaint at the P1446 standard (which I do not
> have a copy of), but I really dislike the use of the term Real, as opposed
> to Float, in programming languages. It just serves to feed confusion of the
> kind that has been so evident in the separate thread on guidelines for use
> of floating-point arithmetic.
I emphatically agree that "Real" should not be used as the name for the
floating point type of a language.
Even the term "Real" itself for real numbers is suspicious. All numbers are
really imaginary, unless you believe Kronecker in which case integers
aren't. :-) :-)
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-08-21 0:00 SI Units Solicitation - Upgrade from comments William A Whitaker
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1997-08-22 0:00 ` William A Whitaker
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <33FE221A.547E@gsg.eds.com>
1997-08-23 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-26 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-08-22 0:00 ` William A Whitaker
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
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