On Mon, October 31, 2005 10:23, Sybren Stuvel said: > Ben O'Steen enlightened us with: >> Using decimal as opposed to float sorts out this error as floats are >> not built to handle the size of number used here. > > They can handle the size just fine. What they can't handle is 1/1000th > precision when using numbers in the order of 1e10. >
I used the word 'size' here incorrectly, I intended to mean 'length' rather than numerical value. Sorry for the confusion :) > Sybren > -- > The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a > capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the > safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? > Frank Zappa > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
