On Tue, 24 May 2016 12:57 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk> > wrote: >> Right, but this is to miss the point. Let's say that 4000 years have >> defined 1/3 to be one third, but Python 3 (as do many programming >> languages) defines 1/3 to be something very very very very close to one >> third, and *that* idea is very very very very new! > > Have you ever written one third as 0.33333333 ? Because that's also > something very very close to one third.
For many purposes, 0.33 is close enough to one third. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
