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Re: higher precision doubles

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>,
 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> wrote:

> > An exact zero. As was created by God. Not a floating point zero.
> 
> Computer programming has nothing to do with religion.

I took this as an oblique reference to Kronecker's aphorism, "God made 
the integers; all else is the work of man."

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kronecker>

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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  Re: higher precision doubles Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-10 22:22 -0700
    Re: higher precision doubles "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-09-11 05:36 -0400
    Re: higher precision doubles Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-09-11 13:29 +0200
      Re: higher precision doubles Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-09-11 13:50 +0200
        Re: higher precision doubles Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-09-11 14:09 +0200
  Re: higher precision doubles Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-09-11 10:59 +0200

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