[Tutor] Need help with rewriting script to use Decimal module

[Dick Moores]

At 05:37 AM 1/1/2007, Kent Johnson wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
>>bestFracForMinimumError() is only a small part of a program I wrote 
>>long ago, called frac.py 
>>(<http://www.rcblue.com/Python/fracForWeb.py>). I'm trying to 
>>rewrite it so as to get more precision by using the Decimal module, 
>>but am getting nowhere. Errors all over the place. Can some kind 
>>and knowledgeable soul show me how?
>
>I don't see where you are actually using the decimal module here, am 
>I missing something?

You're missing the explanation that I didn't write. ;-)

I pasted what I had before even starting to use Decimal, but left in 
d(), thinking that my helper could use it..

Dick


>It doesn't help that you cal the argument to your function 'decimal'.
>
>>dec = .345765988765560057657654654
>
>Your Python interpreter probably doesn't have enough precision to 
>represent this number directly. Here is what I get:
>
>In [1]: dec = .345765988765560057657654654
>
>In [2]: dec
>Out[2]: 0.34576598876556008
>
>Kent
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