On Apr 3, 9:43 am, "Martin P. Hellwig" > IMHO, the crackpot in this regard is actually partially right, > multiplication does mean that the number must get bigger, however for > fractions you multiply four numbers, two numerators and two > denominators. The resulting numerator and denominator by this > multiplication get indeed bigger.
That argument is great! Just make sure that you've managed to leave before the class has to learn about irrational numbers that don't *have* numerators and denominators ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list