Nate
On 7 Oct 2010, at 13:37, Nate Hayes wrote:
The problem is you are conflating Level 2 names and objects with Level 3
representations (i.e., implementation code and structures). That is the
source of confusion.
A "bare decoration" is a Level 2 concept. Period.
So is a "bare interval".
Agreed. Indeed since finite precision is not crucial, we can think of them
as Level 1 concepts.
Your example is entirely Level 3.
A pair of binary64 values at Level 3 is _not_ a bare interval. It is only
one possible Level 3 representation of a bare interval.
The "16 bytes, 1 byte" stuff was just a for-instance. My arguments
themselves are independent of the level 3 illustration I introduced.