Jan. 25, 2005
8:22 a.m.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 konrad.hinsen@laposte.net wrote:
On Jan 23, 2005, at 12:20, Norbert Nemec wrote:
I think, it was one of the fundamental flaws in the design of Python not to include IEEE754 from the very beginning. Leaving the details of floating
Python is written in C, so it couldn't make more promises about floats than the C standard does, at least not without an enormous effort. Not even the floating-point units of modern CPUs respect IEEE in all respects.
And even if that effort had been put into Pythno, Numeric probably would've sidestepped it for performance. Note that Python does give platform-independent behavior for integer division and mod, while Numeric just gives whatever your C platform does. Warren Focke