On Feb 25, 1:58 pm, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What part of "repeated additions and divisions" don't you understand?
What part of additions and subtractions don't you understand? I'm invalidating half of your statement, the division part, but validating another half, the additions part and adding some statements on my own. > > Try doing numerical integration sometime with rationals, and tell me > how that works out. Try calculating compound interest and storing > results for 1000 customers every month, and compare the size of your > database before and after. > Since when have I said that fractional is appropriate for calculating compound interests. Fractionals works best in scenarios where the calculations are mostly addition and subtraction, not percentage division and multiplications like in compounds. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
