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Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016, at 00:46, Ben Finney wrote:
> > What is “those”? The measurement is imprecise, the observations are
> > inexact.
> > 
> > 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.

Yes. Because the object is not a number, it is a representation of a
number :-)

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