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

[Mark H. Harris]

On Sunday, March 9, 2014 12:21:07 AM UTC-6, Alexander Heger wrote:
 

> The decimal module really should only be used for financial 
> applications; there should be a separate high-precision float type. 
>

   No, no, no....   It may and should be used for financial calculations,
          so true,
but it may ALSO be used for a general purpose high precision (and) 
arbitrary precision decimal floating point. Otherwise it might as well have
been patterned after the fixed width standard.  It was patterned after 
Cowlishaw's extension. 

>
> Why do you say only financial?


 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/attachments/20140308/16b5b976/attachment.html>