19 Jan '09 16:20>
Originally posted by SwlabrI think it's relevant. It's impossible for any continuum variable to be exactly equal to something, but interger-like variables can be exactly equal to something.
Well yes, but then re-labelling 1/2 to be 1 we have just created an integer out of a fraction.
Come to think of it, it is possible to re-label all the rational numbers as integers (as they have the same 'size'😉, but not so with the real numbers. Is this perhaps significant?