Division considered un-Pythonic (Re: Case-sensitivity: why -- or why not? (was Re: Damnation!))

[Remco Gerlich]

Roy Smith wrote in comp.lang.python:
> piet at cs.uu.nl wrote:
> > As it is now in Python, you can have a==b and c==d both being true, but
> > a/c==b/d being false. Which would be a bad surprise for most people.
> 
> What values of a, b, c, and d would cause that?  Maybe I'm just being 
> dense, but i don't see it.

a = 1, b = 1.0, c = 2, d = 2.0

a==b and c==d, but a/c==0 and b/d==0.5.

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