On 5/26/06, kirby urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scheme also has a built in rational number type. There's been some > discussion of building that in to Python, but my understanding is > that's being left to libraries at this point. We already have any > number of Rational Number implementations (I've written a few myself).
Rationals are easy to implement and easy to understand from a mathematical POV, but not practical when it comes to computing your taxes. ABC used rationals and it was not a success (except amongst mathematicians :-). Floating point decimal is a much better choice. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
