Conditional operator in Python?
Tim Peters
tim.one at home.com
Fri Apr 6 18:08:16 EDT 2001
> OTOH, trailing zeroes can be useful in real-world arithmetic, and
> the REXX language defines (e.g.) 4.73 - 1.03 to be 3.70, not 3.7,
> and way not 3.7000000000000002. I'm going to inflict that on
> Python someday.
[Grant Edwards]
> Geez, like we don't have enough confused FP users today.
> I can just imagine the postings:
>
> Why does 1.12345678 * 3 == 3 ?
It wouldn't. Read the spec, if you care:
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/
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