On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Dave Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 21, 2:44 pm, "Jerry Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My understand is no, not if you're using IEEE floating point. > > Yes, that would explain it. I assumed that Python automatically > switched from hardware floating point to multi-precision floating > point so that the user is guaranteed to always get correctly rounded > results for +, -, *, and /, like Flaming Thunder gives. Correct > rounding and accurate results are fairly crucial to mathematical and > scientific programming, in my opinion. > --
If you're going to use every post and question about Python as an opportunity to pimp your own pet language you're going irritate even more people than you have already. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
