Against PEP 240

[Bengt Richter]

On 31 May 2001 10:28:32 -0700, aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:

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>One can have floating-point BCD, which is what I'm currently working on.
>It's a real pleasure to write
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>    1.2e2346257231235019862340987162305961293865 * 2.0
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>and get
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>    2.40e2346257231235019862340987162305961293865
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>Note carefully the mantissa with its trailing zero.
Just curious, is that based on something like [ <long>, <long> ]
with the second being a decimal exponent, analogous to binary fp?

Or, are you maintaining a decimal digit sequence representation
with some decimal "digit" radix like 10^4 or 10^9 (with each "digit"
represented in binary)? Or?