Christopher Baker:
> Python assumes, and converts to, floats all over the place. So users need
> to understand and accommodate  the limitations of floats anyway. Having
> exact fractions in seemingly arbitrary places will not result in more
> accurate (or precise) results in most cases, but would result in more
> confusion and more difficult error analysis.

Exactly. That's what I have been trying to phrase.
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