Yogeswaran Umasankar <y...@debian.org> writes: > As I look further, it appears that standard Python libs such as float or > decimal.Decimal do not provide exact representation of rational numbers > (fractions) without potential loss of precision. Seems ‘fraction’ > package yield exact results because those functions directly work on > fractions (to my limited understanding).
> decimal.Decimal is better than float, but it only extends to arbitrary > precision decimal arithmetic, not exact representation of rational > numbers. Given that these libraries could potentially serve as > dependencies for tensor-related packages and beyond, should we consider > bringing 'fraction' or restrict ourselves to float (which is a fallback > in moarchiving if fraction unavailable)? I think the suggestion is to use the Python standard library package "fractions" specifically: https://docs.python.org/3/library/fractions.html -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
