On 2009-06-10 15:32, Robert Kern wrote:
On 2009-06-10 14:46, Mark Dickinson wrote:
But I don't know why it would be useful to know that endpoints *are*
sometimes
included, without knowing exactly when.
That's a fair point. However, one issue that hasn't been brought up is
that it might be confusing to a user why random.random() returns values
in a half-open interval while random.uniform() claims a closed interval.
Even for reasonably sophisticated floating point users, it's not
necessarily obvious that that is the reasoning behind the different claims.
Basically, if we can forestall another tedious thread about imagined asymmetry
and "hemispatial neglect" with a single sentence, I'm all for it.
:-)
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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