On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Jim Lee <jle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 07/03/18 16:51, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> >> I love watching pedantically precise people panic and dig themselves into >> a hole. Since I'm an extremely pedantic person myself, I can recognise it >> in others -- especially when they're not as precisely correct as they >> think they're being. >> >> It was two numbers, not three, and not even close to "vastly" different. > > > Ah, I see we're not going to leave it alone. In that case, "indefinite" > is a "number", in that it was a quantity you cited along with the other two. > If you'd prefer to call it a "quantity", that's fine with me. Talk about > pedantic...
I've had debates with people about whether "infinity" is a number or not, but I've never yet heard anyone say that "indefinite" is a number. Hmm. This could be interesting. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
