Vedran Čačić <ved...@gmail.com> added the comment: Hm... is "exact result" a technical term that's defined somewhere? Because to me it seems that this
> "If there exists an exact result at a lower precision, this result should also be returned at MAX_PREC (without MemoryError)". is a mathematical statement, and surely for Decimal('0.07776') ** Decimal('0.2') _there exists_ an exact result at a lower precision. Maybe this should be reworded as "If there exists ... _and an implementation knows about it_, it should also be returned ..." ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39576> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com