Re: What is precision of a number representation? (was: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats)

2016-07-11 Thread Jan Coombs
tion that does indicate the precision of a number [1]. It also resolves other problems of current float representation. Bad news?:In doing so unums becomes incompatible with current hardware floating point engines. Jan Coombs -- [1] slides: http://sites.ieee.org/scv-cs/files/2013/03/Right-Sizing

Re: Bigotry (you win, I give up)

2017-04-26 Thread Jan Coombs
kered, or a good believing nationalist citizen, you can easily believe that you know everything. Then you just get on and do it, regardless. So don't blame Hxxler or anyone else, acquire knowledge, and do testing, even when it's only your view of Python that might change. Jan Coombs -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list