9 Mar
2014
9 Mar
'14
6:09 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 03:44:25PM -0800, Mark H. Harris wrote:
There are two user issues:
1) maths should not give surprises 2) inputs should have a reasonable "expected" interpretation
Computer maths cannot fail to give surprises. py> x = 1/Decimal(3) py> sum([x, x, x]) == 1 False "No surprises" is simply an impossible request. -- Steven