newbie seeks inaccurate arithmetic insight
Stanley Krute
StanleyKrute at starband.net
Mon Apr 30 09:31:18 EDT 2001
Hi Tim
> Not unique to Python; same story in C, C++, Java, Perl, Fortran, etc.
Hmmm. Here's a corresponding c program
http://static.userland.com/images/stanleydaily/carithmeticprogram.gif
and here's its output
http://static.userland.com/images/stanleydaily/carithmetic.gif
> See
>
> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/RepresentationError
>
> for details.
Thanks for the link.
> If you need exact decimal arithmetic, and can afford the expense of
> simulating decimal arithmetic, your best bet for now in Python is to use
the
> FixedPoint class at
>
>
ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/contrib-09-Dec-1999/DataStructures/FixedPoin
t.py
>
Thanks again for the link.
> if-you-want-exact-buy-a-one-dollar-hand-calculator
<hehehehe>
stan
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