On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> Then you need to read more about Unicode. The *codepoint* for the >> letter 'A' is 65. That is not Unicode, that is one part of the Unicode >> spec. > > I don't think Python users need to know anything more about Unicode than > they need to know about IEEE-754. > > How many bits are reserved for the mantissa? I don't remember and I > don't see why I should care.
At what point can a Python float no longer represent every integer? That's why you should care. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
