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

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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014, at 11:37, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 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.

If you're keeping track of it other than implicitly, isn't that floating
point? Just of a NNNNNNN*10^-X variety instead of 1.NNNNNN*2^X.