floor() function definition

Greg Ewing see at my.signature
Thu May 17 00:15:54 EDT 2001


Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> So floor() and ceiling()
> return "large" floats unchanged, because they're exact integers already.

If Python ever supports a Scheme-style exact/inexact
distinction, the resulting integer should be tagged as
inexact. (The notion of an inexact integer is a
bit strange, but its necessity seems to be inescapable!)

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