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eru on Oct 18, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arithmetic Is Hard—To Get Right

Why? Most of math does not deal with anything like precision.

nazgulnarsil on Oct 19, 2008 [–]

precision is a very important part of how math interacts with the real world.

eru on Oct 19, 2008 | [–]

Yes, but only for the part of math that deals with (real) numbers.

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