On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 1:37 PM Stefan Pochmann <smpochm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So could/should 10**400 / 1e200 be implemented to do that instead of > raising the error? Or is it a too rare use case and not worth the effort, > or does something else speak against it? > For me, it's not so much that it's not worth the effort, but more that it's not worth disrupting the clean and easily-digestible mixed-arithmetic model that we currently have. Unrelated question: under this proposal, what would you want `Fraction(10**400) / 1e200` to do? Should it also produce a `float` approximation to 1e200, or is it okay for it to raise `OverflowError` as it currently does? -- Mark
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