Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pardon? What is "the right thing with signed zeros"... In the last > 30 years I've been on machines that normalize floating zero into a true > zero (all bits are zero: mantissa, exponent, and sign). This is the > first time I've even seen a variable output as a negative 0.0!
Most machines these days use IEEE 754 which supports negative zero. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_zero -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
