Re: [HACKERS] 123.45 - 123 = 0.45 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] 123.45 - 123 = 0.45
Date
Msg-id 199812160029.TAA23406@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] 123.45 - 123 = 0.45  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Rational numbers have either terminating or repeating expansions in
> any base you care to use; irrationals never do.
> 
> Sorry, I'll get off my math-pedant soapbox now.  Just tend to get
> annoyed when people misuse technical terms.

And I was a math minor in college.  I am embarassed at what I have
forgotten.


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