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How would you get those numbers into the computer anyway? It seems like this would be a practical system to deal with numbers that can be represented exactly in that way, and numbers you can get at from there.


The way every other weird number gets into a computer: through math operations. For example, sqrt(7) is irrational. If you subtract something very close to sqrt(7) from it, then you need to keep making digits.




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