> What languages use that, or something giving non-floating > point results these days?
I haven't had to use such things for a long time, but Scheme has a data type for floating point and another data type for exact numbers. Python's documentation has a good explanation of the issue and makes the "decimal" and "fractions" modules available to do more exact calculations. See: http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html tim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
