On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 1:47 AM Martin Teichmann <martin.teichm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi David, > > > A toy example with a half dozen operations won't make huge fractions. A > > loop over a million operations will often be a gigantic memory hog. > > I do not propose to do that, and I agree that it would be stupid. Usually, > the fraction gets very quickly converted into a float, and your millions of > operations will be done with floats. >
But if integer division gave a Fraction, then at what point would it be converted into a float? As long as all the literals are integers, it would remain forever a rational, and adding fractions does get pretty costly. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/6SI5N4JJ352IZ5OHOL4YRPHPA3SJZ2DY/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
