Decimal() instead of float?

[Robert Kern]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
>> This is far more accurate than any measured latitude could be.
> 
> you're saying that we don't measure geographical positions on an atomic 
> scale? ;-)
> 
> (it's too late for serious calculations, but I'd guess we're talking 
> Ångströms here, right?)

The meter was originally defined to be 1e-7 of the distance between the equator
and the North pole, so 1 degree of latitude is roughly 1e7 m/90 ~ 1e5 m. 1e-16 *
1e5 = 1e-11, 1/10th of an Ångström.

-- 
Robert Kern

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