Using fractions instead of floats
Steven D'Aprano
steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au
Thu Oct 4 19:19:56 EDT 2007
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:47:27 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> writes:
>> > implementation in pure Python). Finally, arithmetic would become
>> > very confusing if there were three distinct numeric types; it already
>> > causes enough confusion with two!
>
> There's already ints, longs, floats, complexes, and decimals. What's
> the problem with one more?
Having different data types for different needs isn't a bug, it's a
feature.
Besides, ints and longs are more or less the same data type now, or at
least they are in the process of being integrated.
--
Steven.
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