for / while else doesn't make sense

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 24 May 2016 12:57 am, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk>
> wrote:
>> Right, but this is to miss the point.  Let's say that 4000 years have
>> defined 1/3 to be one third, but Python 3 (as do many programming
>> languages) defines 1/3 to be something very very very very close to one
>> third, and *that* idea is very very very very new!
> 
> Have you ever written one third as 0.33333333 ? Because that's also
> something very very close to one third.

For many purposes, 0.33 is close enough to one third.



-- 
Steven