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

[Dan Bishop]

Irmen de Jong <irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl> wrote in message news:<3e58092a$0$49113$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>...

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

Early versions of Turbo Pascal didn't.  But in those days, a floating
point coprocessor wasn't standard equipment on PC's.