"Roel Schroeven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Notwithstanding my other mail, it might be better to use another > term. > Alan, you already use the name 'floating point numbers' in that > section;
I did consider that but since some programming languages specifically have a "Real" type(Pascal, Modula, etc) I decided to leave it as it was. Even though the 'Real' is really a Float... > I think it's a bit better to always refer to those numbers by that > name, > and mention 'real numbers' as an alternative name. The opposite of > the > current situation more or less actually. Yeah, That might be a better way to deal with it. I'll consider a rewrite of that section to that style next time through. For now its not top of my priority list! :-) Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor