My guess is that you didn't try @skrishnamurthi suggestion:

> Did you try the `sin(pi / 6)` example? You'll find that Pyret produces a rather interesting result that is also instructive.

The result of this doesn't feel like magic and doesn't resemble "JavaScript's truthiness and type coersion" at all IMO.

Here's a live code editor where you can try it out: https://code.pyret.org/editor

I found it to be a very refreshing and intuitively-guiding experience :)

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Spoiler alert!

So, fist i had to find how to access pi and sin(), which was simple enough googling for documentation. Typing `num-sin(PI / 6)` on he editor already gives an interesting result:

  ~0.49999999999999994

That ~ there looks suspicious!

Then i tried `num-sin(PI / 6) == 1 / 2`, which seems to be syntactically invalid and yields an awesome error message:

  Reading this expression errored:
  
  num-sin(PI / 6) == 1 / 2
  
  The == and / operations are at the same grouping level. Add parentheses to group the operations, and make the order of operations clear.

Kudos to the Pyret team for such a nice error message!

So finally, adding those missing parens, `num-sin(PI / 6) == (1 / 2)`, yields another informative and useful error message:

  Attempted to compare a Roughnum to an Exactnum for equality, which is not allowed:
  
  The left side was:
  
  ~0.49999999999999994
  
  The right side was:
  
  0.5
  
  Consider using the within function to compare them instead.

All in all, i'm very impressed with the clarity and approachability of the language. Thanks @skrishnamurthi for the suggestion of trying this out! :D