[Python-ideas] Fix some special cases in Fractions?

[Neil Girdhar]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 2:09 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> > On 2018-08-30 06:39, Neil Girdhar wrote:
> >
> >> I'd like these to be Fraction(1), Fraction(1), and Fraction(0).
> >
> > Why? I cannot think of any natural use case why you would want Fractions
> > for a few special cases on an operation which returns non-Fractions
> > generically.
>
> Also, Fraction(1) for the second case would be flat-out wrong.
>

No, it's not "wrong".  1 is one of the cube roots of 1.  It's consistent
with 1 ** (2/3) == 1.

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