[blml] Decimal HCP ranges - nitpicking

Konrad Ciborowski cibor at poczta.fm
Mon Jul 2 12:55:58 CEST 2007


> if 13 is 
> the boundary, the upper interval starts at 13.000...1 and the inferior 
> interval end at 12.999...

If "..." means an infinite numbers of 9s then, to tell truth,

12.999... = 13.0


because 12 + 9/10 + 99/100 + 999/1000 + 9999/10000 + ... = 13

(a trivail sum of a series).

The decimal notation of real numbers is ambiguous.



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Konrad Ciborowski
Kraków, Poland


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