[Python-3000] Extension: mpf for GNU MP floating point

[Facundo Batista]

2007/9/28, Rob Crowther <weilawei at gmail.com>:

> a) MPF() now takes a float or integer argument because mpf_set_str is just

Rob, there has been a *lot* of discussion about this for Decimal (see
the PEP and discussions in python-dev and python-list around the PEP
date).

The main issue here is what means the user if he calls MPF(2.3):

a) MPF("2.3")

b) MPF("2.2999999999999998")

The difficult of the choice is that a) is maybe what she expects, b)
is the value value (so why not to think she expects the real value?)

Regards,

-- 
.    Facundo

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