> Jeffrey, is there any way you can drop the top of the tree and going > straight from Number to Complex -> Real -> Rational -> Integer? These > are the things that everyone with high school math will know.
I think knowledge of the concepts of group, ring, and field is supposed to be standard knowledge for any high-school senior -- isn't this what the "new math" was all about?. But they're pretty fundamental to computer science; anyone trying to do serious work in the field (that is, anyone with a reason to read the PEP) should have a nodding acquaintance with them. Bill _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
