On Sun, May 22, 2016, at 12:46, Jon Ribbens wrote: > Sorry, I have to stop you there as the entire premise of your post is > clearly wrong. "int" is not "an approximation of real numbers", it's > a model of the mathematical concept "integers",
It is a representation of Z, a subset of R (as is float, technically, though that particular subset has no nice name like Z and Q) The operators that apply to it are the operations on R, even operations under which Z (or even R) is not closed. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
