[Python-ideas] numerical type combining integer and float/decimal properties [Was: Re: Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System]

[Wolfgang Maier]

Guido van Rossum <guido at ...> writes:

> 
> This representation makes more sense, it is fixed point. But you can just
use a single integer and keep track of where the point should be.

Right, the main reason why I haven't tried that is that I started out with
an int for representing the integral part and a Decimal for the rest, so
from the beginning I always had two separate objects in the code.
On the other hand, I assume that a single int might also slow down the
trimming of the fractional part, which is necessary to keep its precision
fixed ?