[Tutor] precision?

[Alan Gauld]

On 10/08/11 10:41, Walter Prins wrote:
> Hi
>
>     Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>      > Thousandth digit??? Python doesn't support floating point numbers

> ... except of course if you're using an arbitrary precision math package
> like mpmath or bigfloat.  (I would've thought the fact that the original
> poster even mentions 1000 digits of accuracy might imply that they're
> actually using such a library

I suspect the OP meant the 3rd decimal place - as in, the first is the 
tenth, the second the hundredth and the third is the thousandth...

But I'm guessing...

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