The scheme of things: exact and inexact numbers

  • Authors:

  • William Clinger

  • Affiliations:

  • Semantic Microsystems, Inc.

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

Numbers are one of the greatest achievements of humanity. They are the product of many thousands of years of effort by the best minds of history---and prehistory. That effort continues, for our concept of numbers is, and will remain, unfinished.