Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ludston 818 days ago
> Or I can tell you that it in base 10, it has an infinite representation,

Does it really have an infinite representation? I can't imagine an infinite representation fitting on a page. I'm pretty sure you're representing it as 1/3 or 0.(3). Neither of those representations are infinite. They're only a few characters really.

1 comments

Nice.

Are these numbers the same: “0.5 in base10” and “0.1 in base2”?