float / double support in Python?

Paul Foley see at below.invalid
Wed Feb 12 07:51:22 EST 2003


On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:15:00 GMT, Brandon Van Every wrote:

> Although, oddly enough, some other poster thought we should all be using
> 2-byte chars, and of course those are 16 bits.  :-)

Why "of course"?

BTW, Unicode is 20-and-a-bit bits nowadays, not 16.  ISO-10646 is 31 bits.

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