Builtin Float Epsilon? (was: Re: Does python suck or I am just stupid? )

[Alexander Schmolck]

Irmen de Jong <irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl> writes:

> 
> PS. is there a language (apart from the already mentioned ABC) that doesn't use
> the machine floating point datatype for floats?
> 

scheme, at least optionally (the spec has exact floats (#e1.3 as opposed to
1.3), as well as inexact integers #i3).

in drscheme:

> (* 0.00000000001 100000000000000000)
999999.9999999999
> (* #e0.00000000001 100000000000000000)
1000000

alex