On Feb 15, 3:30 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The point is that all numbering systems with a base + precision will > have (rational) values they can't exactly represent. Q\R is of course > out of the question by definition....
This 'Decimal is exact' myth has been appearing often enough that I wonder whether it's worth devoting a prominent paragraph to in the docs. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list