Re: Indices starting from non-1 (Was: Killa: a scripting language ...)

[Jorge <xxopxe@...>]

On 02/28/2013 08:40 PM, Christopher Berardi wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:35:55PM -0200, Jorge wrote:
> > Wait, that's no PI!
> >
> > An idea for a project: replace the fp in Luas number for a pair of
> > integers, a and b, representing the fraction a/b. Define operations
> > accordingly, and modify the parser.
> >
> > Jorge
>
> So shall we ignore all the irrational numbers? No PI, sqrt(2), etc.?

It's a (non-fun) joke. There are no irrational numbers inside a 
computer, unless you handle them symbolically (an irrational number has 
infinite digits which are not a repetition of a sequence). So if we are 
to handle only rationals, let be explicit on that.

Stuff: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ContinuedFraction.html

Jorge