On 4/25/07, Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following things mean absolutely nothing to me: > > - Monoid > - MonoidUnderPlus > - Group > - Ring > - Semiring > - Field > > So, most of the terminology in the PEP. > > I can see use-cases for this level of formalism, but I'm a strong -1 > on making any part of the stdlib effectively off-limits for people > without advanced math degrees. Why can't this be shipped as a > third-party module?
As a math major I have no excuse, but I have to confess I'm also really rusty on these things. (Nothing a quick look at wikipedia can't refresh though.) 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. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
