(You top-posted your reply, instead of writing your response following
the part you were quoting)
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Lalitha Prasad K wrote:
In numerical analysis there is this concept of machine zero, which is
computed like this:
e=1.0
while 1.0+e> 1.0:
e=e/2.0
print e
The number e will give you the precision of floating point numbers.
Lalitha Prasad
That particular algorithm is designed for binary floating point. The OP
was asking about Decimal instances. So you'd want to divide by 10.0
each time. And of course you'd want to do it with Decimal objects.
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Harold<dadap...@googlemail.com> wrote:
I'm curious. Is there a way to get the number of significant digits
for a particular Decimal instance?
DaveA
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