Numerical tower
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title:
Numerical tower
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In Scheme and in Lisp dialects inspired by it, the numerical tower is a set of data types that represent numbers and a logic for their hierarchical organisation. Each type in the tower conceptually "sits on" a more fundamental type, so an integer is a rational number and a number, but the converse is not necessarily true, i.e. not every number is an integer. This asymmetry implies that a language can safely allow implicit coercions of numerical types—without creating semantic problems—in only on
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Set of data types that represent numbers in a given programming language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_tower
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2023-05-05T10:57:55Z
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