Feb. 19, 2012
10:47 p.m.
* Ruby (1.9.3), the `Time class <http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Time.html>`_ supports picosecond (10\ :sup:`-12`)
We must do better than Ruby: support arbritrary precision! :-D
Seriously, I do consider that a necessary requirement for the PEP (which the Decimal type actually meets). I don't want to deal with this issue *again* in my lifetime (now being the second time), so it's either arbitrary-precision, or highest-possible precision. When I was in school, attoseconds (as) where the shortest named second fraction. Today, it seems we should go for yoctoseconds (ys). There is an absolute boundary, though: it seems there is no point in going shorter than the Planck time (5.4 * 10**-44). Regards, Martin