Tag Info  Hot answers tagged   You might want to step back and
see where and why those existing models come from. When a
process is created, it is simply given a flat storage area which
is simply indexed from 0 to N. Because this storage area
(talking about RAM here) is backed by a dedicated hardware and
some fancy semiconductors it happens to be pretty fast, but it's
not the only one of ...   Short answer: because it is the
default approximation of a real number the language in question
provides.