factorial of negative one (-1)

Mon Nov 1 23:21:42 EDT 2010

In message <87r5f55qj5.fsf at xemacs.org>, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> Python has a little-known but very instructive method for determining the
> makeup of a float:
> 
>>>> 1.1 .as_integer_ratio()
> (2476979795053773, 2251799813685248)

Only available in 2.6 or later. Are we already talking as though 2.5 doesn’t 
exist any more? I still have client machines running that (Debian Stable 
5.0). :)