Re: [Python-Dev] Mixing float and Decimal -- thread reboot

On Mar 20, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

I suggest a 'linearised' numeric tower that looks like:

int -> Decimal -> Fraction -> float -> complex

Is that a typo? Shouldn't Decimal and float go between Fraction and complex? The abstract numeric tower is: Number Complex Real Rational Integral where both Decimal and float have operations associated with reals. Raymond