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Comment by timschmidt

Yes, it should be useful for that. Hyperreal's trig and approximate functions performance is also stellar. Perhaps the biggest compromise in terms of the math supported by hyperreals at the moment is that although Rational equality can be exactly tested, Computable equality is currently structural. So it's possible to end up with two mathematically equivalent Computables which aren't structurally equal. Because it's not a full CAS.

It's still possible to approximate them both, and test them against each other, but since the whole architecture is built to reduce, avoid, and cache approximations because they're expensive, it's not the default.

parent timschmidt 5 months ago

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