[Python-Dev] Re: PEP239 (Rational Numbers) Reference Implementation and new issues

[Andrew Koenig]

Oren> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:05:03AM -0400, Andrew Koenig wrote:
Oren> Any calculation involving a floating point number should taint
Oren> the result with inexactitude and yield a floating point result.
>> 
>> Even comparisons?

Oren> Comparisons could produce a third boolean value called 'Undetermined':

I wonder what would be the definition of sort in the presence
of such comparisons?  Would it be possible to implement it
efficiently?