[Edu-sig] Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Number format in IDE

[Kirby Urner]

>course, while these options are great for using python as a calculator, 
>they would suck if used for a ray-tracer (you wouldn't want to use python 
>long ints for such a beast, either).

Not sure I follow.  A ray tracer doesn't need infinite
precision.  Floating point ops do OK, no?  After you
get well below the threshold of screen and/or print
resolution, who cares about more digits?

Kirby