[Python-Dev] Function Hash: Check it in?

[Paul Hughett]

tim says:

> Cray's was the only box on earth that set I to 1 in

>    INTEGER I
>    I = 6.0/3.0

> Fortran doesn't define that the result must be 2.  But-- you guessed
> it --neither does Python.

I would _guess_ that the IEEE 754 floating point standard does require
that, but I haven't actually gotten my hands on a copy of the standard
yet.  If it doesn't, I may have to stop writing code that depends on
the assumption that floating point computation is exact for exactly
representable integers.  If so, then we're reasonably safe; there
aren't many non-IEEE machines left these days.

Un-lurking-ly yours,

Paul Hughett