Decimal arithmatic, was Re: Python GUI app to impress the boss?

[Brian Quinlan]

>         When I took science classes, I'd have been dinged a few points
if
> I turned in 0.035 -- the rule was to report results to the same
> significance as the inputs.
> 
>         0.7 * 0.05 => 0.0 in those science classes. 

I'll be that you were really taught to answer 0.04

Otherwise I fear for your scientific education :-)

Cheers,
Brian