Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> Yes, but you get the first 1 bit for free. Not really. :-) That's a detail of how floating-point numbers happen to be stored; it's not really relevant here. It doesn't affect the fact that IEEE 754 binary64 floats have 53 bits of *precision*, so using 31 for the integer part leaves only 22 for the fractional part, so we're 8 bits short, not 7. (If you really want, you can subtract 30 from 52 instead of 31 from 53, but it's just a more complicated way of doing the same calculation, and doesn't change the result.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39484> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
