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

[Christian Tismer]

Steve Holden wrote:

[me about normalization]

> Next someone will suggest that we store rationals as a sequence of
> coefficients of the prime factors. This would make primes really easy to
> recognise (since they'd be a sequence of zeros followed by a one with a
> single one as denominator).

This makes of course pretty much sense if the only
operations you want are multiplication/division
which becomes very very cheap, while addition becomes
unaffordably expensive :-)

> but-it-might-slow-down-other-operations-a-bit-ly y'rs  - steve

will-not-suggest-it--tried-all-of-these-decades-ago - chris

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