Nick Maclaren wrote: > The word "better" is emotive and inaccurate. Such calculations are > numerically meaningless, and merely encourage the confusion between > consistency and correctness. There is a strong sense in which giving > random results between -1 and 1 would be better.
I did, of course, mean more consistent (and yes, random consistent results would be "better" by this definition and indeed I would prefer that over inconsistent but more accurate results ;-) Cheers, - Andreas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
