On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > * Decimal and float really belong side-by-side in the > tower, rather than one above the other. Neither of them is > inherently any more precise or exact than the other.
Except that float is fixed-width (typically 53 bits of precision), while Decimal allows a user-specified, arbitrarily large, precision; so in that sense the two floating-point types aren't on an equal footing. Mark _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
