Re: LOGO-L> Infinity and like words

[Chuck Shavit <CShavit@MagicSquare.com>]

>> Sure they can, if you allow the representation to change.  For
>> instance, you could represent ONE as "1" and PI as "PI".  Thus a
>> program could contain:
>> 
>>     expression     result
>> 
>>     2 < PI         TRUE
>>     3 < PI         FALSE
>>     PI - PI        0
>>     FLOOR PI       3
>> 
>
>You missed the best one of all.
>
>      PI / PI        1
>
>This is were the symbolic processors get a huge amount of
>power.

However, symbolic processors are rather weak in
computing expressions like "3 < PI", as the example
above clearly demonstrates.
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