Against PEP 240

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Fri Jun 1 13:07:39 EDT 2001


In article <3b17ca9e.47602448 at wa.news.verio.net>,
Bengt Richter <bokr at accessone.com> wrote:
>
>Well, I was talking about using an error-correcting-code (ECC) concept
>to prevent propagation of errors, not just finessing the final output.
>I guess my tail end example was misleading 8-<:^)

Ah.  I've seen things like that, but IIRC you can't use the hardware FP,
so you might as well go to decimal.
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