Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > AFAICT, there is no good use case for showing floats in in hex
It is my impression that hexadecimal is more common than binary, in the numerical analysis community, for exact representation of floats. For example: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/28/14/29/PDF/floating-point-article.pdf "Hexadecimal floating-point representations are especially important when values must be represented exactly, for reproducible results — for instance, for testing “borderline cases” in algorithms." Or course, without hex float literals or an equivalent function for input, hex float output is not much use. ---------- nosy: +tjreedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3008> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
