Negative Numbers and NumberFormat

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2017-04-05 19:21, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> The latter bit about 'not being able to do arithmetic' might sound odd 
> but it is
> a reflection of the finiteness of computers.

Just correcting myself: 'finiteness of computers' was the wrong thing to 
say
here - if you can represent a number as a decimal string in a computer 
then it
is clearly finite as the amount of memory you have is finite.

Therefore, it is more about 'needing to do arithmetic quickly on 
computers'
(for some definition of 'quickly').

Mark.

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