Python -- floating point arithmetic

Victor Eijkhout see at sig.for.address
Thu Jul 8 11:19:37 EDT 2010


Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:

> I'm starting to think that one should use Decimals by default and
> reserve floats for special cases.

Only if one has  Power6 (or 7) which has hardware support for BCD.
Otherwise you will have slow applications.

Victor.
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