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Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==?

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> IOW: float is a poor approximation to ℝ.

Of course it's a poor approximation. That's because real numbers are
uncountably infinite, so it's rather tricky to represent and
manipulate them efficiently. IEEE 754 gives us practicality rather
than purity.

ChrisA

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Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2015-03-19 19:00 -0700
  Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-03-20 13:33 +1100
    Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2015-03-19 19:57 -0700
      Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-03-19 20:27 -0700
        Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-20 14:34 +1100
          Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-03-19 20:47 -0700
            Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-20 15:35 +1100
            Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-20 17:35 +1100
              Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2015-03-20 08:49 -0400
              Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-03-20 06:46 -0700
        Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-03-20 16:09 +1100
          Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-03-20 06:35 -0700
            Re: Deep comparison of dicts - cmp() versus ==? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-03-20 16:10 +0200
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                Re: OT Intuitionism+Platonism+Mysticism => CS (was Deep comparison of dicts...) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-03-21 08:28 +0200
                Re: OT Intuitionism+Platonism+Mysticism => CS (was Deep comparison of dicts...) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-03-31 20:53 -0700
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