[Python-ideas] Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System

[Mark H. Harris]

On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:09:02 PM UTC-6, Guido van Rossum wrote:


Mark, it feels like you do not understand Python well enough to be able to 
> make sweeping proposals about its reform. 
>


hi Guido,  I'm sorry, but isn't that the whole point?  The person who 
notices that something
isn't working quite right (that would be me) comes to court, as it were, 
before those who
are supposed to know intimately how everything works (that would be you) 
and in good 
faith asks politely for the "people in the know" to correct the difficulty.

You know what, you're right--- I'm a dumb cluck who doesn't know anything 
about the 
intricacies of python yadda yadda yadda...  but you know what else ? >

I hate this:

>>> from decimal import Decimal
>>> a=Decimal(1)
>>> b=Decimal(.1)
>>> a+b
Decimal('1.100000000000000005551115123')
>>> 

... and I think the people who DO know intimately how python works, should 
do something to fix it.

I'd like to help, if you'd let me.

marcus 
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