Moshe Zadka moshez at math.huji.ac.il
Sat Mar 4 06:04:30 EST 2000

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[Tim Peters]
> At the level of the original poster's question, the best IEEE-754 conformant
> answer is "floating point sucks".  

That's it. I've given up on trying to understand you. What should 
1/2 do?

1. It can't return 0.5 -- floating point sucks
2. It can't return Rational(1, 2) -- rational arithmetic blows up
3. It can't return 0 -- integer division is confusing

(Note that I do agree on 1 and 3, and you managed to convince me about 2)

i-fear-the-decimal-point-ly y'rs, Z.
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Moshe Zadka <mzadka at geocities.com>. 
http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html

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