At 9:34 AM + 12/29/06, Luke Palmer wrote:
When do we do integer/rational math and when do we do floating point math?
That is, is 1 different from 1.0? Should 10**500 be infinity or a 1
with 500 zeroes after it? Should 10**10**6 run out of memory? Should
"say (1/3)**500" print a bunch of d
Darren Duncan wrote:
Following from this, I propose that we have distinct-looking
operators (not just multis) that users can explicitly choose when
they want to do integer division/modulus or non-integer
division/modulus.
I don't know if the following constitutes a problem or not; but the
one o
"Luke Palmer" schreef:
> When do we do integer/rational math and when do we do floating point
> math?
>
> That is, is 1 different from 1.0? Should 10**500 be infinity or a 1
> with 500 zeroes after it? Should 10**10**6 run out of memory? Should
> "say (1/3)**500" print a bunch of digits to the
On 12/31/06, Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For example, we could have:
div - integer division
mod - integer modulus
/ - number division
% - number modulus
Or alternately:
idiv - integer division
imod - integer modulus
ndiv - number division
nmod - number
