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Old 03-30-2011, 04:04 AM   #18
Buhoutsoupfap

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Well yeah with music... but calculating numbers is different, I think. Not really. To use a really simple example:

A fraction like 1/3 is precise. One in every three. Exactly.

Digital results express this differently. Enter it into a calculator; it comes up as 0.3(repeating), the accuracy of which gets closer to, but never equals, the precision of the original number, as you include more significant digits:
0.3
0.33
0.333
0.3333
0.33333
0.333333
0.3333333
etc.
Each is a successively closer approximation of 1/3, but none actually equals it exactly.
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