On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com> wrote: [..] > It looks like number of decimal digits printed are 17 in Python, 16 in > Haskell and 15 in Ruby. > > Is there any way to change that behavior in Python? [..]
I guess it would be from the __repr__ from the int object? That's implemented in C isn't it? Apropos the floating point issue, check out http://cobra-language.com/docs/python/ (the Accurate Math section) > The problem is that Python defaults to a binary floating point type even > though most numbers that people input are base 10. To help > address this Python offers an additional Decimal type that computes the > correct numbers, but it must be used explicitly and, some > would say, awkwardly: -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
