Python, mysql, floating point values question

[Terry Hancock]

On Saturday 02 July 2005 08:53 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 18:49:20 -0400, Christopher Kang
> <chris.kang.83 at gmail.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> > I've been doing the epsilon comparisons, i had just hoped that to be a
> > temporary solution.
> > 
> 	Considering how often this has come up, I've sort of lost faith
> in CS programs at colleges. Now, this might be an unfair statement as I
> don't know if any of those bringing up the question ever had college CS
> courses... 

Yeah, it's unfair.  I would be seriously surprised if even half of the
readers here majored in CS.  I doubt even 1% actually learned about
this floating point problem in a CS class.  ISTM that anyone destined
to major in CS would've figured this out long before that.

I learned it when I was about 14, programming in Basic on a home
computer, IIRC.  I certainly had learned it from experience by the
time I went to college.

But who knows when someone here picked up programming?  A lot
of people learn it later in life, and Python is a good choice for that.

And for that matter, some of the posters here have *been* 14.

I suppose it's also worth mentioning that programming and CS
aren't mostly about number-crunching anymore, so a lot of people
never bother with floats.

Which seems totally bizarre to me, since I cut my teeth on graphics
and moved on to scientific programming, but there you are.

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