Re: My comments Bradd W. Szonye 19 Oct 2005 21:42 UTC

Bradd wrote:
>> Consider the per capita income of the USA in whole dollars, which is
>> the quotient of two inexact integers.

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Integerness doesn't matter here. In practice it's treated as a real
> number, a quotient of two reals ....

It's not "treated as a real number," it's simply an approximation, which
is not the same thing at all.
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