On 2021-11-20, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > But you learn that it isn't the same as 1/3. That's my point. You > already understand that it is *impossible* to write out 1/3 in > decimal. Is it such a stretch to discover that you cannot write 3/10 > in binary?
For many people, it seems to be. There are plenty of people trying to write code who don't even under the concept of different bases. I remember trying to explain the concept of CPU registers, stacks, interrupts, and binary representations to VAX/VMS FORTRAN programmers and getting absolutely nowhere. Years later, I went through the same exercise with a bunch of Windows C++ programmers, and they seemed similarly baffled. Perhaps I was just a bad teacher. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
