HELP: restore my faith in Python

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 05-Mar-00 Moshe Zadka wrote:
 >  On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Tim Peters wrote:
 > > Your fear of the binary point is much deeper <wink>.
 >  
 >  Actually, no: both scare me equally. For what I do, 2 and 10 are just as
 >  bad -- it's the finite numbers of bits I'm fighting against. And I can't
 >  even take the rational way out: I have to deal with square roots and
 >  trigonometry.

Ahh, it's time to include extensions of the rational field. Let's get
more abstract. Abstraction is beautiful! And we need to represent 
transcendental numbers consistently aswell.

Yes-I-have-read-Herstein-ly y'rs

/Mikael

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