Subject: How to Represent the Continuous via the Discrete
From: "William J. Rapaport" <rapaport@buffalo.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:40:39 -0400 (EDT)

I have put an article on our website that discusses how computers
represent the continuous real numbers by using a discrete (and finite!)
subset of the natural numbers.

Link to:
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/191/S09/discretemath.html

or directly to:
Hayes, Brian (2009), "The Higher Arithmetic",
American Scientist 97 (September-October): 364-368.
http://tinyurl.com/nlrgvy