Jan. 24, 2005
1:50 a.m.
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. Konrad. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France Tel.: +33-1 69 08 79 25 Fax: +33-1 69 08 82 61 E-Mail: hinsen@llb.saclay.cea.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------