On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 11:38 +0000, Nick Maclaren wrote: > |> Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > |> > |> > Is using the decimal module the best way around this? (I'm > |> > expecting the first sum to match the second). It seem > |> > anachronistic that decimal takes strings as input, though. > > As Dan Bishop says, probably not. The introduction to the decimal > module makes exaggerated claims of accuracy, amounting to propaganda. > It is numerically no better than binary, and has some advantages > and some disadvantages.
Please elaborate. Which exaggerated claims are made, and how is decimal no better than binary? -Carsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
