On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:49 PM, <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > The day you find an operator working on the set of > reals (R) and it is somehow "optimized" for N > (the subset of natural numbers), let me know.
I have yet to find any computer that works with the set of real numbers in any way. Never mind optimization, they simply cannot work with real numbers. As to operations that are optimized for integers (usually not for naturals - supporting zero and negatives isn't hard), they are legion. In Python, integers have arbitrary precision, but floats, Fractions, and Decimals, don't. Nearly any operation on arbitrarily large numbers will be either more accurate or more efficient (maybe both) with integers than with any of the other types. Letting you know, that's all. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
