Robert Kern wrote:
... I wish people would stop representing decimal floating point arithmetic as "more accurate" than binary floating point arithmetic. It isn't. Decimal floating point arithmetic does have an extremely useful niche: ...
Well, we don't actually have an arbitrary-precision, huge exponent version of binary floating point. In that sense the Decimal floating point beats it. Not that it would be too hard to have such a floating point in Python (long for mantissa, int for exponent, ...), but we don't in fact have such a module in place.
--Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
