Floating point bug?

[Preston Landers]

marek.rocki at wp.pl(marek.rocki at wp.pl)@2008.02.13 15:13:20 -0800:
> Not a bug. All languages implementing floating point numbers have the
> same issue. Some just decide to hide it from you. Please read
> http://docs.python.org/tut/node16.html and particularly
> http://docs.python.org/tut/node16.html#SECTION0016100000000000000000
>


This is true.  Fortunately Python does provide a module which allows
you to work with exact floating point quantities.

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-decimal.html

Of course the downside is that these are not quite as fast as the
built in float type, but probably good enough for most purposes.

Preston