On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:31:05 -0700, Mark Dickinson wrote: >> We all know that IEEE floating point is a horribly inaccurate >> representation [...] > > That's a bit extreme! Care to elaborate?
Well, 0.1 requires an infinite number of binary places, and IEEE floats only have a maximum of 53 or so, so that implies that floats are infinitely inaccurate... *wink* -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
