[Python-Dev] Feedback on new floating point info in tutorial

Delaney, Timothy tdelaney at avaya.com
Tue Jun 12 00:19:36 EDT 2001


> Tim Peters wrote:
>  
> > god-created-the-integers-from-1-through-3-inclusive-and-that's-it-ly
> >     y'rs  - tim
> > 
> I thought "many" came after two ...

Well, that's true, but large numbers of people forget that "many" itself is
a number ...

1, 2, many, many 1, many 2, many many, many many 1, many many 2, many many
many, lots!

I say throw out FP, BCD, rational. Get rid of integers and long integers.
All Python needs is troll representation! It is impossible to have an
inexact representation ... although precision may suffer a bit ...

Tim Delaney




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