On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 2:09 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2018-08-30 06:39, Neil Girdhar wrote: > > > >> I'd like these to be Fraction(1), Fraction(1), and Fraction(0). > > > > Why? I cannot think of any natural use case why you would want Fractions > > for a few special cases on an operation which returns non-Fractions > > generically. > > Also, Fraction(1) for the second case would be flat-out wrong. > No, it's not "wrong". 1 is one of the cube roots of 1. It's consistent with 1 ** (2/3) == 1. -- > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "python-ideas" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-ideas/aZIHpPhe0mw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > python-ideas+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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