On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
> <abpil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
>> <abpil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Baiju Muthukadan <ba...@muthukadan.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > http://bitcheese.net/wiki/nopython
>>>> >
>>>> > Don't start a flame war now, please ;)
>>>>
>>>> 2.3 - 3.4 and 2/3.0 in Python, Ruby and Haskell interpreters.
>>>>
>>>> $ python3.0
>>>> Python 3.0.1 (r301:69597, Feb 14 2009, 19:03:52)
>>>> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)] on darwin
>>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> >>> 2.3 - 3.4
>>>> -1.1000000000000001
>>>> >>> 2/3.0
>>>> 0.66666666666666663
>>>>
>>>> $ irb
>>>> >> 2.3 - 3.4
>>>> => -1.1
>>>> >> 2/3.0
>>>> => 0.666666666666667
>>>> >> ^D
>>>>
>>>> $ ghci
>>>> GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
>>>> Loading package base ... linking ... done.
>>>> Prelude> 2.3 - 3.4
>>>> -1.1
>>>> Prelude> 2/3.0
>>>> 0.6666666666666666
>>>> Prelude> Leaving GHCi.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like number of decimal digits printed are 17 in Python, 16 in
>>>> Haskell and 15 in Ruby.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to change that behavior in Python?
>>>
>>>  Not in the interpreter AFAIK. In code, use Decimal type.
>>>
>>> import decimal
>>>  >>> x=decimal.Decimal('2.3')
>>> >>> y=decimal.Decimal('3.4')
>>> >>> x-y
>>> Decimal("-1.1")
>>>
>>> I am not however a fan of the decimal module since it uses strings as the
>>> base type.
>>
>>  You do end up with quirks like the following however.
>>   >>> x=decimal.Decimal('2.3')
>>>>> y=decimal.Decimal('3.4')
>>>>> z=x-y
>>>>> z
>> Decimal("-1.1")
>>>>> str(z)
>> '-1.1'
>>>>> z>(2.2-3.4)
>> True
>>
>>  ;-)
>>
>> Perhaps the "bitchy" blogger has a point w.r.t  floating point handling.
>
> Not really. That is problem with floating point computation and not
> with Python. Even that is same in Ruby.
>
> $ irb
>>> 1.1 > (2.2-3.4)
> => true
>>> ^D

Opps. wrong example.
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