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Quote: programs are inevitably richer than their mathematical description; e.g., integer data type is not the same as a mathematical integer

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programming as mathematics

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Mathematical descriptions [of computer programs] are also disengaged from reality … as 32-bit twos-complement integers. … The reason for the difference is fundamental: A … while mathematics operates in a world we created …   Google-1   Google-2

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