On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Hi, > > Are there any plans to add support for decimal floating point > arithmetic, as defined in the 2008 revision of the IEEE 754 standard > [0], in numpy? > > Not at the moment. There is currently no hardware or C support and adding new types to numpy isn't trivial. You can get some limited Decimal functionality by using python classes and object arrays, for instance the Decimal class in the python decimal module, but the performance isn't great. What is your particular interest in decimal support? Chuck
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