I think you skimmed over "A floating point expert can probably look at this ... "
I remember a time when I just assumed more bits was better, and a later time when I figured smaller was better, and a still later time when I wanted to match the published requirements for bitsize. So that was several years when I didn't really understand the tradeoffs, but could benefit from (or at least write better documentation) knowing the size. During those years, I would have recognized the importance of 1024, but would probably not have bothered interpreting 2.220446049250313. A method (or docstring) with a more friendly interface would be good. -jJ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/R4BW2ZL46Y23UYYQCOSWJ2B3KTSRO5LK/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
