[Edu-sig] new python // and /

[kirby urner]

On 5/26/06, Michael Tobis <mtobis at gmail.com> wrote:
> My decision was to simply tell students that fractional numbers on
> computers are tricky business, and that if they plan to go much
> further they would have to learn about them, but that I was going to
> stick to integers.
>

I would not make this decision.  Floating points aren't so problematic
that we need to avoid them for several weeks.  Several minutes maybe.

Kirby