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On 2016-05-23, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure where ℝ comes into this in the first place. Existing
>> Python numeric types only represent various subsets of ℚ (in the case
>> of fractions.Fraction, the entirety of ℚ).
>
> And of course I realized after sending that I forgot about complex
> numbers. But even there Python merely represents 2-tuples of ℚ.

OK, admit it, now you're all just showing off the fact that you know
how to type in those fancy symbols.

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