Jason Orendorff wrote: > On 9/29/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>(I just checked the program I'm working on, and my analysis tells me >>that the most common floating point value in that program is 121.216, >>which occurs 32 times. from what I can tell, 0.0 isn't used at all.) > > > *bemused look* Fredrik, can you share the reason why this number > occurs 32 times in this program? I don't mean to imply anything by > that; it just sounds like it might be a fun story. :) > > Anyway, this kind of static analysis is probably more entertaining > than relevant. For your enjoyment, the most-used float literals in > python25\Lib, omitting test directories, are: > > 1e-006: 5 hits > 4.0: 6 hits > 0.05: 7 hits > 6.0: 8 hits > 0.5: 13 hits > 2.0: 25 hits > 0.0: 36 hits > 1.0: 62 hits > > There are two hits each for -1.0 and -0.5. > > In my own Python code, I don't even have enough float literals to bother with. > By these statistics I think the answer to the original question is clearly "no" in the general case.
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