[Python-ideas] numerical type combining integer and float/decimal properties [Was: Re: Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System]

[Ethan Furman]

On 03/10/2014 11:09 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> I'm sorry, I still don't understand your proposal.

I think he's saying make a new type similarly to complex, only instead of two floats to make a complex number, have a 
(long) int and a decimal float to make this new type.  The long int portion would have infinite precision, the float 
portion would have, say, 16 digits (or whatever).

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~Ethan~