Did I miss the issue here? Floating point represetnations are a problem because for some decimal representations coverting the decimal form to binary and then back to decimal does not (necessarily) return the same value. There's a large literature on this problem and known solutions. (See, for example Guy Steele's paper on printing floating point.) On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 2:40 PM -0500 3/30/04, Tim Peters wrote:
[Josiah Carlson]
That is, Python uses the 8-byte FP, not the (arguably worthless) 4-bit FP.
I believe all Python platforms use *some* flavor of 8-byte float.
Don't be too sure. I've seen the VMS version getting thumped lately--someone may well be using X floats there. (which are 16 byte floats) -- Dan
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