[issue7630] Strange behaviour of decimal.Decimal

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

It might also help to note that, with decimal, what you see (from repr() of a Decimal instance) is *exactly* what you get.  So when you see

>>> dec
Decimal('1.797693134862315907729305191E+308')

that number really is exactly what's stored in dec:  there are no 'hidden'  digits waiting to appear.

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