Doc: clarifying irrational #38057
Doc: clarifying irrational #38057
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Clarifying (fixing?) JuliaLang#37977 [skip ci]
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Any specific reason not to format |
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Not really, I just overlooked that, actually copied from your fixed text (where Float64 wasn't like that, and still the extra word) but then changed to the pi symbol. It's now fixed, and I'm ok with this merged as is, if you/others are. |
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| arithmetic operations with other numeric quantities. | ||
| Number type representing an exact irrational value, which is automatically rounded to the "correct" precision in | ||
| arithmetic operations with other numeric quantities. Even the simplest calculations, such as `-pi` or `2π` convert a | ||
| number to `Float64`, making the result no longer irrational. |
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Maybe rephrase:
Calculations involving arithmetic between numeric types and irrational types will lead to conversion to a numeric type. For example, -pi or 2π produce Float64 results.
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I would like to note that -pi is unary, and thus not an arithmetic operation between a numeric type and irrational.
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I was just going to change, but I have second thoughts about "Calculations involving arithmetic" (as synonyms?) and "between numeric types". With pi a number, this could be misunderstood, so I was thinking Number types, but I see it has misleading help "Abstract supertype for all number types".
Also should clarification rather go into Irrational and/or AbstractIrrational?
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"-pi is unary, and thus not an arithmetic operation", mathematically not an operation? But in Julia, it's a unary operator as in almost all languages, and involves calculation:
-(x::AbstractIrrational) = -Float64(x)
Clarifying (fixing?) #37977
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