PEP 260: simplify xrange()
Grant Griffin
not.this at seebelow.org
Wed Jun 27 23:22:10 EDT 2001
Jeff Shannon wrote:
>
...
> To make a long story short, the discussion regarding FP boils down to the
> fact that "1.0" cannot be exactly represented in FP.
Eureka! Now I understand why the IEEE folks didn't bother to provide a
bit for that!
any-number-system-that-represents-zero-as-a-special-case-can't-be
-all-good-<wink>-ly y'rs,
=g2
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