On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Jan Coombs <jenfhaomndgfw...@murmic.plus.com> wrote: > Thees all look good, but you may get into trouble if you trust a > PC with them! > > If the language/PC uses floating point representation then it > will assign a fixed number of bits for the fractional part, and > this will be left aligned in all/most hardware.
PCs don't necessarily use floating point. Just check out Python's own decimal.Decimal class, or roll your own if you need to. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list