[Python-Dev] return type of complex (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 08:17:58 CEST 2012

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Devin Jeanpierre wrote:

(Complex numbers get a free pass because "complex numbers with rational real and imaginary parts" is not a memorable name for a type.) Complexional?

"Oh is there not one maiden here Whose homely face and bad complexion Have caused all hope to disappear Of ever winning man's affection?"

I'm hoping your name was a joke, because it's rather unwieldy. But really, computers are no different from anything else; they have to represent numbers somehow. That pretty much means it has to be rational, as it's awkward trying to do arithmetic with surds floating around everywhere.

ChrisA

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