[Edu-sig] Long floats?

[Kirby Urner]

>there should be a rational numbers module in one of the Demos directories
>(Demo/classes/Rat.py).  Here's an interpreter session that plays a little
>bit with it.
>

Didn't find a Rat in my Windows Python 2.0 -- maybe under
the sink or something.

Not sure how a rat might help student X explore decimal
digits of phi (sqrt(5)+1)/2 beyond what ordinary floating
point will do.  Maybe it's time to be dense -- 2 AM, can't
even spell straight.\

Kirby