HELP: restore my faith in Python

[Ken Seehof]

> If you don't know what you're doing, don't deal with floats. I'm sure
> Tim Peters, as a former HW floating-point guy can remember exactly how
> many digits you need to do it correctly, but the short answer is "more
> then your CPU has".
>
> floating-points-are-*not*-a-field-by-a-long-shot-ly y'rs, Z.
> --
> Moshe Zadka <mzadka at geocities.com>.
> http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html

The shorter answer is: infinite.

Ken Seehof <kens at sightreader.com>