Robert Smallshire added the comment:

>> Were float to inherit from Rational, rather than Real ...

> This would break the Liskov substitution principle.

How so?  Rational extends Real with only numerator, denominator and __float__. 
Isn't the existence of float.as_integer_ratio demonstration that numerator and 
denominator could be implemented?

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