<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Bardur Arantsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spam@scientician.net" target="_blank">spam@scientician.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2013-09-20 18:31, Brandon Allbery wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> unless you have a very clever representation that can store<br>
> in terms of some operation like sin(x) or ln(x).)<br>
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</div>I may just be hallucinating, but I think this is called "describable<br>
numbers", i.e. numbers which can described by some (finite) formula.<br>
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Not sure how useful they would be in practice, though :).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was actually reaching toward a more symbolic representation, like what Mathematica uses.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">
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