On 7/04/22 9:53 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
> how else would you do variable-precision in the standard library?

Maybe the mistake was in thinking that we need variable
precision at all.

If the goal of Decimal was to provide arithmetic that
"works like your calculator", well, most calculators have
a fixed precision of 10 or so digits, which seems to be
fine for most things.

So why *do* we have variable precision in Decimal?

--
Greg
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