On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 at 09:46, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> writes: > >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. > > I'd like to predict that within the next ten posts in this > thread someone will mention "What Every Computer Scientist > Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic". > > |>>> 0.1 + 0.2 - 0.3 > |5.551115123125783e-17 >
Looks like someone just did. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
