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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: why learn C?
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:50:36 +0200
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:40:47 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> 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?

Sure. Here it is: e.

The question is meaningless without specifying the language. In my language
e is computable, but 10 is probably not.

> Or that we interpret some discrete unit in the computer as
> a base named e?

Yes. Some computer states are associated with the variable x having the
value e. That is. It is no different from associating them x=0 or x=1.
Computer states are not numbers. We, humans, interpret them as numbers.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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