Jason Orendorff wrote: > On 1/18/06, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I think supporting arbitrary bases for floats is way overkill and not >>worth considering. > > > If you mean actual base-3 floating-point arithmetic, I agree. That's > outlandish. > > But if there were a stdlib function to format floats losslessly in hex > or binary, Tim Peters would use it at least once every six weeks to > illustrate the finer points of floating point arithmetic. <0.00390625 > wink> > > +1.0 > Nah, Tim's got the chops to use the struct model to get his point across.
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