On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:55 AM Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 15:16, Martin Teichmann
<martin.teichmann@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Because reality. People would like to write 1/2 * m * v**2 to mean the obvious thing, without having to think about the details. And there are many people like this, this is why it shows up on this mailing list regularly. I have never felt the urge to write two/three * m * v**two.

I'd actually prefer to write (m*v**2)/2. Or (m/2)*v**2. But those
wouldn't work, the way you describe your proposal. And I'd be very
concerned if they behaved differently than 1/2 * m * v**2...

Paul

A much more concrete way of making the point I was trying to make!

Different results from:

>>> one = 1

>>> three = 3

>>> one/three

..and:

>>> 1/3

... has to be avoided. I don't see how it can be with the way the proposal has been described.

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Ricky.

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