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Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long

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wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, 2024-05-04 at 00:02 +0100, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> 3.1414159
>
> 3.1414159... (infinitely long)

That's not a string produced by your grammar for <fixed_point_number>.
(Also, your quoting and attributions are incorrect.)

You've cut all the context, presumably because you don't want people to
see the question you can't answer.  Here's the context with the question
you are not able to answer restored:

You: <fixed_point_number> is a super set of rationals.

Me: Give an example <fixed_point_number> that is not rational.

Me again (because you didn't answer): Can you give an example
<fixed_point_number> that is not rational?  If not, why not?

Your eventual reply is not a string produced by your grammar.  Here is
the grammar again since you cut it from your reply.

  <fixed_point_number>::= [-] <wnum> [ . <frac> ]  // excluding "-0" case
  <wnum>::= 0
  <wnum>::= <nzd> { 0 | <nzd> }
  <frac>::= { 0 | <nzd> } <nzd>
  <nzd> ::= 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 // 'digit' varys depending on n-ary

"3.1414159" is a string produced by this grammar (but, anyway, it's
rational).  None of the other characters ("... (infinitely long)") can
form part of a <fixed_point_number>.

-- 
Ben.

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Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-04-29 04:42 +0800
  Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-04-29 11:57 +0100
    Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2024-04-29 13:35 +0100
    Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-04-30 11:03 +0800
      Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-04-29 22:02 -0700
      Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-05-01 22:58 +0100
        Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-05-02 09:33 +0800
          Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-05-01 18:38 -0700
            Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-05-02 10:03 +0800
              Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-05-01 20:38 -0700
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-05-01 20:46 -0700
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-05-01 21:52 -0700
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-05-01 22:40 -0700
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2024-05-02 09:36 +0100
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-05-02 13:22 -0700
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-05-02 12:46 +0800
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-05-02 13:51 -0700
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 08:43 +0800
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-05-02 18:02 -0700
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 09:44 +0800
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-05-02 19:58 -0700
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-05-02 20:23 -0700
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-05-04 10:36 -0700
          Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-05-02 23:03 +0100
            Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 08:41 +0800
              Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-05-04 00:02 +0100
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-05-04 08:28 +0800
                Re: Real Number --- Merely numbers whose digits can be infinitely long Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-05-05 10:14 +0100

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