Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > 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 ?
Not that I recall, but, obviously, I can't be sure. I can't even tell without counting how many 3s there are there. Why do you ask? > Because that's also > something very very close to one third. Yes it is, but I don't get what point you are making. -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
