Rational Numbers

[Facundo Batista]

Noud Aldenhoven wrote:


> When I was programming in a mathematical project I began to wonder if python
> supports rational numbers[1]. In a language like magma[2] it's not such a
> problem. Does python supports something simular?

Python does not have rational numbers.

There's a (rejected) PEP about this, PEP-239:

  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0239/

Maybe you also want to read the section "Why not rational?" of
PEP-327...

  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0327/#why-not-rational

...and even take a look to gmpy:

  http://gmpy.sourceforge.net/


Question: Why do you say that it's a problem?

Regards,

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