Python is DOOMED! Again!

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 13:59:37 EST 2015


On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 12:15:28 AM UTC+5:30, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2015-01-25 04:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > Of course we don't have $1/3 dollar coins, but I do have a pair of
> > tin-snips and can easily cut a $1 coin into three equal pieces.
> 
> I'm impressed that you can use tin-snips to cut it into exactly three
> equal pieces with greater precision than the floating point numbers
> that you're cautioning against in Python.  I believe at that point,
> you're talking about at least the sub-sub-sub-atomic scale. :-)
> 
> -tkc

With Superman¹, you should expect nails that cut electrons precisely

¹ And other s-starting names



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