On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 at 08:22, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2022-12-17, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> It was the rounding rounding error that I needed to avoid (as Peter > >> J. Holzer suggested). The use of decimal solved it and just in > >> time. I was about to truncate the number, get each of the > >> characters from the string mantissa, and then do something like > >> this: > >> > >> 64550.727 > >> > >> 64550 + (7 * 0.1) + (2 * 0.01) + (7 * 0.001) > >> > >> Now I do not need to! > > > > It sounds like fixed-point arithmetic might be a better fit for what > > you're doing. > > Yes, fixed point (or decimal) is a better fit for what he's doing. but > I suspect that floating point would be a better fit for the problem > he's trying to solve. >
Hard to judge, given how little info we have on the actual problem. Could go either way. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
