Prime numbers

[Paul Dale]

(03-24-2016 07:15 AM)brouhaha Wrote:  Perhaps I misunderstand, but if you did that, you still couldn't exactly represent 1/5 in place value with a finite number of digits after the radix mark, so you'd still have to round it.

This was my first thought too....

Using a factorial base would avoid most rounding errors but not all of them. Transcendental functions would produce non-rational results which would require rounding.


Pauli