MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> writes: > On 15/08/2013 15:38, Lele Gaifax wrote: >> wxjmfa...@gmail.com writes: >>> PS A "mole" is not a number. >> >> Oh, nice to know. And OOC, what is a "mole" in your stupid science? >> OTOH, WTF does that matter in current thread and with Python in general? >> > A "mole" is a term from chemistry: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_%28unit%29
Yes, I know that, but AFAIU, there is a closer correlation between "a mole" and "a number" than between "a string" and "the number of bytes an arbitrary computer [language] needs to store it". It did not come out as funny as I meant :) ciao, lele. -- nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia. l...@metapensiero.it | -- Fortunato Depero, 1929. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list