Does python suck or I am just stupid?

Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) me at privacy.net
Mon Feb 24 22:27:52 EST 2003


Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>         You can always ask them if their calculator is telling the "absolute" 
> truth when performing:
> 
>                 1 / 3 * 3
> 
> (if it comes up with 1, it must be using hidden guard digits and 
> rounding the display).

O ye of little faith. They might equally be using
the One True Calculator, which doesn't need any
poxy guard digits, but computes the Absolute Truth
directly using its built-in omniscience function!

(Rumour has it the PSU is currently trying to
acquire this techn





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