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| In a message dated 10/30/2002 7:56:38 AM Central Standard Time, cowan@hidden.email writes: << I read no such implication into 22.0 or for that matter into 21.99999... >> Well, no. By the allowal of decimal additions you have moved away from integers into reals. The languages of the various number systems are similar but not the same, just as some of the numbers each involves are similar but not the same. In some contexts, integer 22 can do business for real 22.0r, but they are different critters (natural 22 is something else again still). Lojban, as a logical language -- and these are largely logical distinctions -- should mirror this fact where it is relevant. (21.9r is not an integer, obviously, and is equivalent to real 22 only at the end of a rather complex process which has no correspondent in integers.) Computer languages do occasionally make sense. |