On 2007-08-15, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What are they teaching in schools these days? I see questions like this and > the > equally perplexing "why don't floats represent numbers exactly?" or the mildy > amusing "how do I write bytes not characters to a file" questions at least > once > a week on this forum.
Who says that schools teach that to every body? Python is a popular language, so there are a lot non-cs people here. I can imagine that eg a user with a background in history or geography has never encountered these things before. (Python got to start programming, and now they suddenly have to deal with inaccurate floats of the otherwise so precise computer :-) ) Albert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
