On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 3:25 AM Ralph Mellor <ralphdjmel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 2:12 PM sisyphus <sisyphus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I also stick to my view that the latter should be the default > > behaviour, as is the case with python3 > ... > I can't imagine making an exception for converting nums into > their exact rational equivalents, with all the negative impact > that a special case brings, including that code like this: > > 0.1 == 1e0 > > which currently returns `True`, would instead return `False`.
That should of course have been: 0.1 == 1e-1 > > 1) Open a new issue about the fact that The Num to > > Rat/FatRat conversion cannot be made; > > Well it can. It's just that it's an intelligent coercion, one that > takes into account the nature of a num as an approximate > format, not an exact one, and thus picks a nearest neatly > rounded rational. So this returns `True`: > > 0.1 == 1e0.Rat; # True That should of course have been: say 0.1 == 1e-1.Rat; # True -- raiph
