Decimal arithmetic, was Re: Python GUI app to impress the boss?
Greg Ewing
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Thu Oct 3 22:02:53 EDT 2002
John Roth wrote:
> The best prior art I can figure is from COBOL, where most of this
> stuff happens today. There, the rounding policy is set by the _result_
> picture, which is a concept that simply isn't availible in Python
Perhaps intermediate results could be
accumulated using arbitrary precision,
and then a rounding function of your
choice applied, e.g.
d = bankers_round(a * b + c, 2)
--
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg
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