Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Then they're in for a terrible, terrible disappointment. Rounding issues don't go away because you're using Decimal instead of float,
No, but what I mean is that they prefer to be surprised in unsurprising ways, so to speak. Everyone knows that floating point numbers have limited precision. What really surprises people is when *binary* floating point numbers behave differently from the decimal ones they're used to. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
