ANN: Experimental Number Types (Integer, Rational, Floats)
Carlos Ribeiro
cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br
Sat Apr 21 17:41:25 EDT 2001
At 16:02 20/04/01 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>That would be a new Decimal type then :-) (which is actually what I'm
>after, since I need them for database interfacing)
So that's a good way to solve both problems. Rationals can be made in a
unambiguous way from decimals, but not from floats. Making rationals of
floats is not a good idea. The conversion from floats has another problem
as well: it conveys a wrong notion that is ok to do it.
Carlos Ribeiro
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