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From: kkim@plains.NoDak.edu (kyongsok kim)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: rendering v. processing (was "re: FOOTWARE SWOOSH")
Message-ID: <10081@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 01:10:06 GMT
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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In article <b4pjoo.f0r@wang.com> rschwartz@OFFICE.WANG.COM (R. Schwartz@Wang R&D Net) writes:

:E.g., no program on any machine will ever truly be able to
:represent *all* integers.  To state that "adequacy of coverage... must be
:paramount" is reflective of only one position in a spectrum of user
:requirements for character sets.

As far as I know, #integers is NOT finite; however, #characters is FINITE
(although it may be VERY LARGE), isn't it?  I have hard time figuring out
a parallelism here.  Please correct me if I am missing something here?

k kim