Python is DOOMED! Again!

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Sat Jan 24 21:22:17 EST 2015


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. :-)

They're really good quality tin-snips.



-- 
Steven




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