> > On 2007-10-01, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Finally, arithmetic would become very confusing if there were
> > > three distinct numeric types; it already causes enough
> > > confusion with two!
Well, yeah... I get what you are saying, that would be confusing...
Terry Re
On Sep 30, 6:48 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> andresj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The problem arises when you try to represent some number, like 0.4 in
> > a float.
>
> Which is really a specific case of the general problem that, for any
>
I was doing some programming in Python, and the idea came to my mind:
using fractions instead of floats when doing 2/5.
The problem arises when you try to represent some number, like 0.4 in
a float. It will tell you that it's equal to 0.40002.
"This is easy to fix", you may say. "You j
