How about adding rational fraction to Python?

Torsten Bronger bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de
Thu Feb 28 10:03:51 EST 2008


Hallöchen!

Grant Edwards writes:

> [...]
>
>> You people can't tell the difference between "obvious" and
>> "learned conventions that came about because in limitations in
>> the hardware at the time".
>
> It seems to me that the expectation that 1/2 yield 0.5 is just as
> much a convention as that it yield 0 or a true rational.

Should be set up a poll?  Do you really think that less than 90% of
the voters would enter something else than 0.5 in the result edit
field?

Tschö,
Torsten.

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