Python compilers?

[Peter Hansen]

Tor Iver Wilhelmsen wrote:

> Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:
> 
>>Dude, didn't you take high-school math?  1/3 _is_ 0.33333...
> 
> No, because at some point you will stop writing 3's, either out of
> boredom, exhaustion or because you need to pee. At that instant, you
> introduce a rounding error, making 3 * 1/3 = 0.99999999999... instead
> of 1.0

Actually, Grant probably meant the "..." (which is an ellipsis,
meaning it substitutes for something else that is left out) to
represent "3 repeating to infinity", the same as putting a dot
over the last 3, or a bar over the last three 3s, or whatever
other convention you might have seen.  Of course, it's just a
convention, so perhaps someone else would think it meant "3s
repeating to the limit of the computer's precision" or something
like that...

-Peter