[BangPypers] A link I found today

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <
abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <
> abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Baiju Muthukadan <baiju at muthukadan.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> > http://bitcheese.net/wiki/nopython
>>> >
>>> > Don't start a flame war now, please ;)
>>>
>>> 2.3 - 3.4 and 2/3.0 in Python, Ruby and Haskell interpreters.
>>>
>>> $ python3.0
>>> Python 3.0.1 (r301:69597, Feb 14 2009, 19:03:52)
>>> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)] on darwin
>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> >>> 2.3 - 3.4
>>> -1.1000000000000001
>>> >>> 2/3.0
>>> 0.66666666666666663
>>>
>>> $ irb
>>> >> 2.3 - 3.4
>>> => -1.1
>>> >> 2/3.0
>>> => 0.666666666666667
>>> >> ^D
>>>
>>> $ ghci
>>> GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
>>> Loading package base ... linking ... done.
>>> Prelude> 2.3 - 3.4
>>> -1.1
>>> Prelude> 2/3.0
>>> 0.6666666666666666
>>> Prelude> Leaving GHCi.
>>>
>>> It looks like number of decimal digits printed are 17 in Python, 16 in
>>> Haskell and 15 in Ruby.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to change that behavior in Python?
>>>
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>>  Not in the interpreter AFAIK. In code, use Decimal type.
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>> import decimal
>>  >>> x=decimal.Decimal('2.3')
>> >>> y=decimal.Decimal('3.4')
>> >>> x-y
>> Decimal("-1.1")
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>> I am not however a fan of the decimal module since it uses strings as the
>> base type.
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>  You do end up with quirks like the following however.
>   >>> x=decimal.Decimal('2.3')
> >>> y=decimal.Decimal('3.4')
> >>> z=x-y
> >>> z
> Decimal("-1.1")
> >>> str(z)
> '-1.1'
> >>> z>(2.2-3.4)
> True
>
>  Oops, I meant,

>>> z>(2.3-3.4)
True



>  ;-)
>
> Perhaps the "bitchy" blogger has a point w.r.t  floating point handling.
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