rounding errors?

Anthony Baxter anthonybaxter at gmail.com
Sun Jul 4 09:42:57 EDT 2004


On 3 Jul 2004 15:17:35 -0700, Dan Bishop <danb_83 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Note that Python 2.4 will include a 'decimal' module that exposes a
> > numerical type far better suited to this sort of calculation that
> > binary floating point.
> 
> Only if you're calculating inherently decimal things (like money).
> 

Or anything where you really care about having controllable 
precision.




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