[Python-ideas] Why not picoseconds?

[Stephan Houben]

2017-10-15 22:08 GMT+02:00 Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com>:
>From Victor's original message, describing the current functions using
64-bit binary floating point numbers (aka double). They lose precision:

"The problem is that Python returns time as a floatting point number
> which is usually a 64-bit binary floatting number (in the IEEE 754
> format). This type starts to loose nanoseconds after 104 days."
>
>
Do we realize that at this level of accuracy, relativistic time dilatation
due
to continental drift starts to matter?

Stephan



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