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On Mon, Jul 18, 2016, at 00:46, Ben Finney wrote:
> What is =E2=80=9Cthose=E2=80=9D? The measurement is imprecise, the observ=
ations are
> inexact.
>=20
> It makes no sense to say that a number is inexact. Exactness is not a
> property of a number.

There's no reason it shouldn't be a property of an object of a numeric
type available in a programming environment though.