floating point in 2.0

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3B1E6A67.2B33C197 at shore.net>, Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk at shore.net> wrote:
>Aahz Maruch wrote:
>>
>> Quite the contrary!  The sooner people realize that floating point is
>> broken, the better off they are!
>
>What we're talking about is the unformatted output representation. Until
>Python computes (with reasonable speed) in BCD or some such, I think
>most people would want good old "print". 

What people want isn't necessarily what's good for them.

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