Re: integer or float?

On Thu, Oct 2, 2025, at 1:25 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> It's more than my personal taste Lawrence, any mathematician will back 
> me up on this.

No.  A mathematician would understand that this is purely a matter
of convention, even if ours is not what most people are accustomed
to (which I don't deny).

> Granted it's not an absolute error just as '.5' is not an 
> absolute error, but neither is it best practice.

There is no universal "best practice"; conventions are entirely
dependent on context.  For example, in the context of baseball
statistics, standard practice is to express the value 0.331 as
".331", and no one finds it strange or objectionable.

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vq