PEP-308 a "simplicity-first" alternative

[Andrew Koenig]

Bengt> and the reason you didn't use eleven * tenths more literally, as in

>>>> 11 * .1 == 1.1
Bengt>     1

Bengt> is that that had an inconvenient superficial result ;-)
Bengt> (while really only proving that different terms can have
Bengt> matching representational errors)

>>>> 11 * .1 ,  1.1
Bengt>     (1.1000000000000001, 1.1000000000000001)

Bengt> How's my guessing?
Bengt> ;-)

Exactly right.

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