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Technically, floating point also imitates irrational and whole numbers as well. Not all numbers though, you'd need a more uhm... elaborate structure to represent complex numbers, surreal numbers, vectors, matrices, and so on.
It does not even imitate all rationals. For example 1/3.
.... Surreal numbers?!?
Basically also include all the infinities.
thank you
..i wish math would just calm down, it's a lunatic
Mathematicians are just bad at naming things. For example
Rings don’t resemble circles
Fields aren’t literal open spaces
Normal has about 20 different meanings
Chaos is not random