In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> |> > The use of different precisions for the two cases is not, however, |> > and it is that I was and am referring to. |> |> You mistake "precision" with "display".
Not at all. "Precision" has been used to indicate the number of digits after the decimal point for at least 60 years, probably 100; in 40 years of IT and using dozens of programming languages, I have never seen "display" used for that purpose. Regards, Nick Maclaren. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list