[Python-3000] PEP 31XX: A Type Hierarchy for Numbers (and other algebraic entities) (original) (raw)
Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Thu Apr 26 19:26:18 CEST 2007
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Jeffrey, is there any way you can drop the top of the tree and going straight from Number to Complex -> Real -> Rational -> Integer? These are the things that everyone with high school math will know.
I think knowledge of the concepts of group, ring, and field is supposed to be standard knowledge for any high-school senior -- isn't this what the "new math" was all about?. But they're pretty fundamental to computer science; anyone trying to do serious work in the field (that is, anyone with a reason to read the PEP) should have a nodding acquaintance with them.
Bill
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