Simon Brunning simon at brunningonline.net
Fri Jan 12 14:34:36 EST 2007

• Previous message (by thread): Rational Numbers
• Next message (by thread): Rational Numbers
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

---

On 12 Jan 2007 15:55:39 GMT, Nick Maclaren <nmm1 at cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> In article <mailman.2648.1168616202.32031.python-list at python.org>,
> Carsten Haese <carsten at uniqsys.com> writes:
> |> but there are more use
> |> cases for Decimal than for Rational.
>
> That is dubious, but let's not start that one again.

Decimals are good for holding financial values. There's a whole lot of
software out there that deals with money.

-- 
Cheers,
Simon B
simon at brunningonline.net

---

• Previous message (by thread): Rational Numbers
• Next message (by thread): Rational Numbers
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

---

More information about the Python-list mailing list