for / while else doesn't make sense

[Ben Bacarisse]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:

> 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 ?

Not that I recall, but, obviously, I can't be sure.  I can't even tell
without counting how many 3s there are there.  Why do you ask?

> Because that's also
> something very very close to one third.

Yes it is, but I don't get what point you are making.

-- 
Ben.