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[William Tanksley]

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 01:23:28 -0400, Tim Peters wrote:

>sqrt(4) is utterly vanilla, and it's computer-centric nonsense that the
>"+0j" somehow makes 4 not 4.  This all ties into a principled reason for 1/2
>to return 0.5, of course -- or some other internal equivalent that doesn't
>suffer silent catastrophic loss of information.  These "different rules for
>different numbers", like tagging long ints with "L", don't make much sense
>to people.

I'd like that too.  Only keep floats out of it if possible -- Lisp had the
right idea there.  I think 1/2 should return 1/2 unless otherwise coerced.

ABC worked that way, IIRC.

>a-sister-made-me-memorize-that-once<wink>-ly y'rs  - tim

'bots have sisters?

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-William "Billy" Tanksley