Re: A simple question about integers

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:21:47 -0300

In <fa69ae35.0409140942.748e6f4f@posting.google.com>, on 09/14/2004
   at 10:42 AM, erayo@bilkent.edu.tr (Eray Ozkural exa) said:

>I will suggest to you that a number that cannot be represented, even
>in principle, does not exist, even in principle.

That's nice, but it has nothing to do with what you quoted. He did
*not* write that a number could not be represented, just that the
representation was distinct from the number.

>If you can, please answer my question,

He already did. The fact that you didn't like his answer does not
diminish its validity.

>whether a real number can have infinitely many non-repeating binary
>digits in base 2, and no digits after the decimal point. By definition,
>no or yes?

No, by definition. 

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