proposed language change to int/int==float (was: PEP0238 lament)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrn.pl.9m7b4d.na4.qrczak at qrnik.zagroda>,
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk  <qrczak at knm.org.pl> wrote:
>28 Jul 2001 23:14:01 -0400, Lloyd Zusman <ljz at asfast.com> pisze:
>>
>> Agreed: rationals with a fixed denominator for calculation results,
>> such as 100 in the U.S. where we have dollars and cents.
>
>No, plain rationals will suffice. No arithmetic operation except
>division introduces a denominator which represents fractional cents.

Huh?  What about sales tax?
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