On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > You would think so, but human readers like redundancy. >
One of the benefits of redundancy is error-trapping. If you see a list of numbers like this: 40 14 24 56 48 12 60 16 ===== 269 then you know the result can't be right, because they're all even numbers and the total isn't. The redundancy of having both the string of numbers and the total adds only a small amount to the transmission requirement, but it adds a lot to the reliability of transfer. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
