On 4/25/07, Collin Winter
The following things mean absolutely nothing to me:
- Monoid - MonoidUnderPlus - Group - Ring - Semiring - Field
So, most of the terminology in the PEP.
I can see use-cases for this level of formalism, but I'm a strong -1 on making any part of the stdlib effectively off-limits for people without advanced math degrees. Why can't this be shipped as a third-party module?
As a math major I have no excuse, but I have to confess I'm also really rusty on these things. (Nothing a quick look at wikipedia can't refresh though.) Jeffrey, is there any way you can drop the top of the tree and going straight from Number to Complex -> Real -> Rational -> Integer? These are the things that everyone with high school math will know. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)