Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Calculating machines that handled > > floating point are older than Python by far. > > Yes, and they almost universally give the result 1/2 -> 0.5.
Can you name an example of a calculating machine that both: 1) represents the integer 1 and the real number 1.0 as distinct objects; and 2) says 1/2 = 0.5 ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
