• @gmtom
    link
    694 months ago

    There are only 2 numbers

    • 0/1
    • all the other numbers
      • @ZILtoid1991
        link
        64 months ago

        Counterpoint: Floating-point inaccuracies.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          8
          edit-2
          4 months ago

          In that case decimal is flawed too, 0.6667 or any such approxination doesnt exactly equal 2/3. It technically happens in any number system where you are dividing by a prime that isnt part of either the base or the number being divided

          • @ZILtoid1991
            link
            24 months ago

            Counterpoint 1: 0.6̇ (Unicode does not support numbers with overdots correctly)

            Counterpoint 2: 2/3

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              44 months ago

              It won’t work with irrational numbers, or transcendental numbers even if you allow things like √2.

              But honestly I have no idea what the point of this conversation even is

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          64 months ago

          Counter-counterpoint:

          Display the exact value of pi with 64 digits in any base N number system.

      • @gmtom
        link
        14 months ago

        All numbers can be written with |

    • @Everythingispenguins
      link
      64 months ago

      You joke but in astronomy there are only three elements. Hydrogen, helium, and metal. Which is just every other element together in one group.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      14 months ago

      Define “all the other numbers”. Do we include only natural numbers? Or all instegers? Or even rational numbers? Do we include imaginary numbers? How about complex numbers? Orbetter go for quaternions?

      • @gmtom
        link
        34 months ago

        Define "all the other numbers

        If its a number and it isn’t exactly 0 or 1.