[Python-ideas] Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System

[Mark H. Harris]

On Saturday, March 8, 2014 8:19:54 PM UTC-6, Tim Peters wrote

That would be true if the standard explicitly forbade extensions (any 
> optional operation or behavior not specified by the standard).  But 
> there are no standards like that ;-)  To comply with a standard, there 
> just needs to be _some_ way to "spell" all the behaviors the standard 
> mandates. 


The IEEE 854 1987  is just such a standard (Mike Cowlishaw's extension).

The generalized  IEEE 754 2008  standard might not have as much wiggly
room.  
 
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