On Feb 16, 3:03 pm, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although rationals have its limitations too, it is a much > better choice compared to floats/Decimals for most cases.
Maybe that's true for your use cases, but it's not true for most cases in general. Rationals are pretty useless for almost any extended calculations, since the denominator tends to grow in size till it's practically unusbale, which means you have to periodically do non-exact reductions to keep things running, and if you do that you might as well be using floating point. Rationals have their occasional special purpose uses, but for most cases they're at best marginally better then floats and more often incomparably worse. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
