On Jun 15, 5:05 pm, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does it mean that even now it does arithmetic in 64 bit? > > I'm not getting enough precision. Is there any way to increase it? > > Buy a good book about numerics or take a course. ;) > > Seriously, computers and IEEE 754 floating point numbers have a lot of > pit falls. If you chose the wrong algorithm you *will* get wrong > results. With floats a*b*c and a*c*b can give you a different result. > > The decimal module is not an option if you need speed.
I do need speed. Is there an option? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
