Tim Peters added the comment: [Serhiy Storchaka] > ... I want to say that double rounding causes not > only bias from ideal distribution, but a difference > between platforms
That's so, but not too surprising. On those platforms users will see differences between "primitive" floating addition and multiplication (etc) operations too. There's a tradeoff here. In Python's earliest days, the bias was strongly in favor of letting platform C quirks shine through. Partly to make Python-C interoperability easiest, but at least as much because hiding cross-platform fp quirks is a major effort and even Guido had only finite time ;-) As the years go by, the bias has been switching in favor of hiding platform quirks. I hope Python 3 continues in that vein, but Python 2 probably needs to stay pretty much where it is. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24567> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
