Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: <snip> > To answer your question, what do I mean by int/int being undefined, I'd have > to > dig into areas of maths that either weren't taught in the undergrad courses I > did, or that I've long since forgotten about. Something > about... fields? <snip> > This is a pretty specialised area of maths. You won't learn anything > about it in high school. And possibly not undergrad maths degrees. I > seem to vaguely recall just barely touching on groups, but not rings > or fields.
When you said before that you thought that undefined division was rather obscure I was going to mention that it's the basic difference between a ring and a field; the intent being that you'd go "oh, yes, of course it's not obscure at all". I'm glad I didn't now, because you would not have seen it as the simple notion I expected! Teaching rings and fields is (or at least was 30 or so years ago) 1st year undergraduate maths here in the UK. Maybe it's changed. BTW, I don't think this has anything to do with what 1/3 should be in Python. Python as no interest in rings and fields -- it's purely a pragmatic decision. -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
