On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Lele Gaifax <l...@metapensiero.it> wrote: > 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 :)
A mole is as much a number (6e23) as the light year is a number (9.5e15). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list