On 2013-05-30 08:29:41 +0000, Steven D'Aprano said:
On Thu, 30 May 2013 10:22:02 +0300, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
I wonder why floating-point errors are not routinely discussed in terms
of ulps (units in last position). ...
That is an excellent question! ...
I have a module that works with ULPs. I may clean it up and publish it.
Would there be interest in seeing it in the standard library? ...
I am definitely interested seeing this in the python standard library.
But as I continued to read the lines following your proposal and the
excellent article from Bruce pointed to by Carlos on this thread, maybe
a package on pypi first grounding somewhat the presumably massive
discussion thread on python-ideas :-?)
All the best,
Stefan.
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