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On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure where =E2=84=9D comes into this in the first place. Existing
> Python numeric types only represent various subsets of =E2=84=9A (in the =
case
> of fractions.Fraction, the entirety of =E2=84=9A).

And of course I realized after sending that I forgot about complex
numbers. But even there Python merely represents 2-tuples of =E2=84=9A.