alt Hacker NewsAgreed, the naming system is atrocious. The one that really pisses me off at this point is that "real" numbers get to be called that. Imaginary numbers with rational coefficients are SIGNIFICANTLY more "real" than a converging infinite series, imo
Agreed, the naming system is atrocious. The one that really pisses me off at this point is that "real" numbers get to be called that. Imaginary numbers with rational coefficients are SIGNIFICANTLY more "real" than a converging infinite series, imo
Wait ... you think of the Reals as converging infinite series?
I think of them as pairs (L,R) of sets of rationals, with every in L less than or equal to every thing in R ...