Why not FP for Money?

[Paul Rubin]

danb_83 at yahoo.com (Dan Bishop) writes:
> str(x), however, is meant to return a "nice" string representation,
> and so it only uses '%.12g' % x (ignoring 5 "noise" digits at the end
> of repr(x)).

Thanks.  I didn't realize that 'nice' means 'inaccurate':

    >>> a=1e12+1
    >>> b=a-1e12
    >>> b
    1.0
    >>> str(a)
    '1e+12'
    >>> float(str(a))-1e12
    0.0

I really do think now that if we're serious about supporting decimals,
we need decimal literals.