Against PEP 240

[Charlie Clark]

> So on this issue I take the heat, agreeing with Kahan that
> artificially
> pretty display is "a pious fraud" that just leads to worse problems.
> So
> long as we're using HW binary fp, better to face the truths of it from
> the
> start.
>
hear, hear!

I'm with you all the way on this one. I'm exactly the sort of person to
be caught out on this and wonder what I've done wrong to deserve this.
Imagine the next time you go shopping and get Euro 0.73999996 as change
because that's what the computer says you should have.

Charlie