<div dir="ltr"><br><br>On Sunday, March 9, 2014 12:21:07 AM UTC-6, Alexander Heger wrote:<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">The decimal module really should only be used for financial
<br>applications; there should be a separate high-precision float type.
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> No, no, no.... It may and should be used for financial calculations,</div><div> so true,</div><div>but it may ALSO be used for a general purpose high precision (and) </div><div>arbitrary precision decimal floating point. Otherwise it might as well have</div><div>been patterned after the fixed width standard. It was patterned after </div><div>Cowlishaw's extension. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Why do you say only financial?</blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div></div>