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Jan 19, 2014 at 12:27 | comment | added | ulidtko | +1 for mentioning the dynamic range – SNR tradeoff in simple words. | |
Jan 17, 2014 at 11:06 | comment | added | user8709 | In support of the "boundaries of number size" - huge divided-by slightly-less-huge possibly equals a small rational with lots of digits after the point. Perhaps something like 3.1415926... - a rational approximation of PI. As PI is an irrational number, there's no bound on how precise you might want to be - and therefore no bound on how large those integers might need to be. You could have integers larger than the number of quarks in the universe squared and it's still not enough to give perfect precision. | |
Jan 16, 2014 at 21:05 | history | answered | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |