In software, we represent real numbers as binary floating-point numbers. Effectively, we represent real numbers as a fixed-precision integer (the significand) multiplied by a power of two. Thus we do not represent exactly the number ‘pi’, but we get a very close approximation: 3.141592653589793115997963468544185161590576171875. The first 16 digits are exact. You can represent the approximation … Continue reading The smallest number that is infinite
