On 5/14/21 2:34 PM, Eric V. Smith wrote: > My understanding of the proposal is that OP is only talking about <literal-integer> / <literal-integer> becomes a > Fraction. So: > > x=1 > x/2 # unchanged, still yields a float. > > It's only literals like "1/2" that would become Fraction(1,2).
Ah -- which means we end up with fractions and fraction math which results in memory and time issues, since most fraction/fraction operations return, unsurprisingly, fractions.
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