Re: string->number Thomas Bushnell BSG 16 Jun 2005 15:27 UTC

Aubrey Jaffer <xxxxxx@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Polar representation works because the polar coordinates of Real
> numbers are in one-to-one correspondence with the Real numbers.
> But one cannot casually add new inexact representations.

I didn't say you could; I'm speaking about adding a new *exact*
representation.  You seem to keep missing that, despite my repeating
it now three times.