> 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 _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
