[racket] What is inexactness about?

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensaxel at soegaard.net> wrote:
>
> Apropos philosophy. The rrrs mailing list is available online and
> contains various
> exchanges on inexact numbers. Here is one from Guy Steele with the
> memorable quote:
>
>                         INEXACT NUMBERS ARE NOT NUMBERS
>
>                         INEXACT NUMBERS ARE NOT NUMBERS
>
>                         INEXACT NUMBERS ARE NOT NUMBERS
>
>   They do not obey the rules followed by numbers, because they cannot.
>   Inexact numbers only represent our -approximate- -knowledge- about numbers.
>
> See
>
> http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scheme-mail/HTML/rrrs-1989/msg00178.html

If I have read the message correctly, Guy was quoting those three
lines as well; they were written by Alan Bawden.

--Carl