On Oct 1, 9:03 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 1, 7:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Oct 1, 8:30 am, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >>> mpq(1,3)+0.6 > > > mpq(14,15) > > > Golly! That's quite impressive. And more than a little bit magic as > > well, since 0.6 is definitely not the same as 3/5. > > It's not? Since when?
The 0.6 above is a floating point number, mathematically very close to 0.6 but definitely not equal to it, since 0.6 can't be represented exactly as a float. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
