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Oleg Broytmann wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The article says "decimal" is a synonym. What is the point to use an
unknown synonym instead of a well-known word?</pre>
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His point is that Python has a fixed-point number type called
"Decimal", and that this will lead to confusion. I can see his point,
but we all know from years of C programming that "%d" takes an int and
formats it in base 10--there is no confusion about this. Indeed, I
suspect describing this as "denary" would lead to far more confusion,
and using the format character "d" to take a Decimal object instead of
an int would lead to widespread panic and mayhem. So -0.5 from me.<br>
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<i>larry</i><br>
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