* "J?rgen A. Erhard" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > >>>>> "Dimitri" == Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > No way in hell. As double has a 50+ bit mantissa, all ints smaller > than this (typical 4 byte long int) can be converted without loss. > (IEEE 754 53 bits mantissa, 10 bits exponent, 1 bit sign... IIRC) > > Yes, I'm nitpicking, why do you ask?
Heh. Like I said, it was a stupid example. > Well... <plug type="stupid">then you probably like Python, as one of > it's (inofficial) mottos is "explicit is better than implicit"</plug> > <wink> Yes, Python is something I must look at... as soon as I get the other stuff out of the way. Re. nitpicking: 1. </wink> 2. Please CC me ttwwiiccee when replying to the list. ;) Dima -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home) http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/descript/gpgkey.dmaziuk.ascii -- GnuPG 1.0.4 public key
