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Yes. A computer scientist should know how numbers are represented and not expect non-representable numbers in that format to be representable.

0.1 is just as non-representable in floating point as is pi as is 100^100 in a 32 bit integer.

Terminating dyadic rationals (up to limits based on float size) are the representable values.



I’m not sure if you got my joke but I referred to the mathematical philosophy, finitism.




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