> Do you see what I mean? math.colse()" increases the cognitive load for no benefit.
That seems to me to be a matter of perspective. It doesn't increase cognitive load for me (appropriate name, meaning is clear, checking the implementation, that's how I would've done it anyway, etc.) so I guess opinions differ.
from your earlier comment:
> Golly. Do any programmers need it explained to them why floating point numbers are not precise and equality does not apply?
I think the answer is _yes_. Actually, all programmers need that explained to them. Especially python programmers, as python is used by a lot of beginning programmers. So I don't see the problem here.
That seems to me to be a matter of perspective. It doesn't increase cognitive load for me (appropriate name, meaning is clear, checking the implementation, that's how I would've done it anyway, etc.) so I guess opinions differ.
from your earlier comment:
> Golly. Do any programmers need it explained to them why floating point numbers are not precise and equality does not apply?
I think the answer is _yes_. Actually, all programmers need that explained to them. Especially python programmers, as python is used by a lot of beginning programmers. So I don't see the problem here.