extend methods of decimal module

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Feb 28 13:37:37 EST 2014


On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Mark H. Harris <harrismh777 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes.  ... and for clarification back to one of my previous comments, when I refer to 'float' I am speaking of the IEEE binary floating point representation built-in everywhere... including the processor!    ... not the concept of tracking a floating point, say in decimal for instance.
>

Are you aware that IEEE 754 includes specs for decimal floats? :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point#Basic_formats

ChrisA



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