On 17/12/2022 18:55, Stefan Ram 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".
Lol! Speaking of which, let us guide ourselves by https://floating-point-gui.de/basic/ and learn that calculations such as ``0.1 + 0.4 work correctly.'' That's the Internet. You learn a thing on a Tuesday, and on a Wednesday you're a teacher. <sarcasm>That's why we need peer review.</sarcasm> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
