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Author	jyasskin
Recipients	facundobatista, gvanrossum, jyasskin, mark.dickinson, rhettinger
Date	2008-02-02.23:34:37
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Message-id	<1201995278.56.0.494849791817.issue1682@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I think Rational should handle all floating types as consistently as possible, whatever their radix or precision. It's unlikely that people will convert from them often anyway, especially from Decimal, so the shorter conversion from Decimal doesn't seem to outweigh the extra complexity in the constructor's behavior. If I turn out to be wrong about this, we can revisit it in 3.1.

I think Rational should handle all floating types as consistently as
possible, whatever their radix or precision. It's unlikely that people
will convert from them often anyway, especially from Decimal, so the
shorter conversion from Decimal doesn't seem to outweigh the extra
complexity in the constructor's behavior. If I turn out to be wrong
about this, we can revisit it in 3.1.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-02-02 23:34:38	jyasskin	set	spambayes_score: 0.0688976 -> 0.0688976 recipients: + jyasskin, gvanrossum, rhettinger, facundobatista, mark.dickinson
2008-02-02 23:34:38	jyasskin	set	spambayes_score: 0.0688976 -> 0.0688976 messageid: <1201995278.56.0.494849791817.issue1682@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-02-02 23:34:37	jyasskin	link	issue1682 messages
2008-02-02 23:34:37	jyasskin	create