[issue3008] Let bin() show floats

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> 1. while taking the binary representation of an integer has a real
> meaning, taking the binary representation of a float only exposes an
> implementation detail, that is the internal layout of float numbers.
>
You may have misunderstood the proposal.  I read the proposal as
producing the true mathematical radix 2 representation of a float
rather than its 64-bit memory layout.

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