[Python-ideas] Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Mar 10 16:01:03 CET 2014


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
>
> That is why I think we should seriously consider moving to IEEE semantics
>> for a decimal literal.
>
>
> I think that would make a *lot* of sense.
>

What's the proposal? Just using decimal64 for decimal literals, or
introducing decimal64 as a new builtin type? (I could get behind either
one.)

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