On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 at 07:46, Paul St George <em...@paulstgeorge.com> wrote: > > Thanks to all! > It was the rounding rounding error that I needed to avoid (as Peter J. Holzer > suggested). The use of decimal solved it and just in time. I was about to > truncate the number, get each of the characters from the string mantissa, and > then do something like this: > > 64550.727 > > 64550 + (7 * 0.1) + (2 * 0.01) + (7 * 0.001) > > Now I do not need to!
It sounds like fixed-point arithmetic might be a better fit for what you're doing. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
